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This is the war he started which has now bitten off a piece of Russia. And depending on how this plays out, how long [Ukraine] can hold the territory, can they get more territory, it's even more humiliating for Putin,
Ukraine is a total underdog, but they're a very effective underdog,
Meanwhile, [Russian army chief Valery] Gerasimov stated the other day that the Ukrainian Armed Forces group that crossed the border amounted to just under 1,000 people. So, everyone has already been killed? Then who controls the occupied territory in Kursk?"
asked X (formerly Twitter) user Dmitri, from War Translated, an independent project that translates materials about the war They have used what limited tools they have to the maximum advantage to harm Russia and Putin. Everybody thought this war was going to be over in three days, and now we're two and a half years into it and Russia is suffering,
I think this is a dramatic development and something which both symbolically and militarily really has huge implications. Symbolically, this makes Putin look weak,
said Browder, CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment adviser to the Hermitage Fund, which was once Russia's largest foreign portfolio investor There is no irreversible process, nothing supernatural happened…Yes, the guys died, that's true. Several populated areas, the enemy entered there,
The purpose of calling it that was to make it seem like it's something very far away…not affecting the Russian people,
Right now, the momentum is clearly on Russia’s side,
says Charles Kapuchan, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank in Washington Every moment for Ukraine is getting tougher and tougher,
says Mathieu Boulegue, a defense expert at the Chatham House think tank in London It’s not a high-quality force,
he said of the Russian army When will it be possible to conduct a negotiation process in the way that we can push them or get something from them? Only when the war is not going on according to their scenarios,
I think we’re heading toward some kind of sustained diplomatic effort” to end the war
We're going to continue to support Ukraine with the capabilities and the systems that they need. We don't feel like this is escalatory in any way. Ukraine is doing what it needs to do to be successful on the battlefield,
Putin needs to demonstrate that Russia's borders are secure and that ultimately, the people within Russia aren't going to be affected too much by the conflict that's taking place in Ukraine,
Substantial Ukrainian advances within Russia would be a strategic blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin's decades-long effort to cement a legacy of Russian stability, security, and geopolitical resurgence,
Both Russian and Ukrainian forces have struggled to achieve operational surprise in the past year and a half of fighting due to the partially transparent battlefield in Ukraine,
Russia brought the war to our land, and it should feel what it has done."
But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alluded to it in his nightly address on Thursday, saying A lot of mechanized maneuver warfare on some level rests upon surprise on being able to rapidly advance and catch your enemy off guard,
Britain participated in all such sorties
Adalbi Shkhagoshev, a member of the State Duma Committee told Russian media outlets Russia has consistently believed legal norms do not apply to it, thus it can attack neighbouring countries with impunity
A senior adviser to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, said