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I say it straight: the crisis has not yet been overcome,
We support Ukraine in this defensive war,
What Russian troops and Russian aviation are doing on Ukrainian territory has signs of genocide as well as inhuman crimes. Therefore, Ukraine has the right to wage war in such a way as to paralyse Russia in its aggressive intentions as effectively as possible,
What the Russian forces are doing in Ukraine amounts to genocide and inhumane crimes,
Ukraine has no interest in taking over the Kursk region,
Unfortunately, Ukraine does not have sufficient capabilities to carry out long-range strikes with the weapons it has to defend itself against this terror. We do not yet have the solutions we insist on. Therefore, there is a need to use the Ukrainian Armed Forces to liberate these border areas from Russian military contingents that are striking Ukraine,
We warn our partners to be prepared for such developments, and if there are such attempts by the Russian Federation, to be vigilant and not to fall for Russian propaganda,
If we had simply sent our troops to where heavy battles were taking place, they would have been engaged in symmetric actions. Instead, we have captured 350 square kilometres of territory in just one day,
It is possible the Ukrainian leadership wants to demonstrate to Russia, but above all to the West, that Ukraine is not at the end of its tether,
Russia is the main beneficiary of an extension of the front line into Russian territory, as it further overstretches Ukraine's armed forces,
Ukraine cannot continue to fight this war in the same way it has been for the past two years. It just simply doesn't have the manpower or weapon stores to do so,
said Spindel, a foreign policy and security expert There have been no signs that Russia is moving troops from the east to stop the Ukrainian advance,
I see this operation in Russia as Ukraine's attempt to slightly shift its strategy,
I don't think anyone wants to see this escalate to a conflict where Ukraine is sending troops toward Moscow, or flying drones or planes in that direction,
Russia is much bigger, and has a larger military, and Ukraine can't continue fighting Russia on equal footing,
My bet is that we'll see increased operations like this, but that Ukraine will try to keep them a surprise, as it did with this Kursk operation,
The Ukrainian military is good at innovation because they've been doing it under fire for a decade now and because they have to be,
The Ukrainian defense establishment is well aware that a straightforward war of attrition with Russia isn't one they can win, and the stakes of losing are existential. From that perspective, their only choice is to innovate technologically, tactically, and strategically,
Ukraine faces enormous challenges today and in the months to come,
AEI's Frederick Kagan and ISW's Kimberly Kagan wrote with support from several other ISW conflict analysts Their ability to do so at all still rests on the accelerated and sustained provision of Western security assistance and the lifting of restrictions on the use of that assistance as well as on their ability to sustain an improved mobilization and training system,