Quotes
Smart people in Kyiv have calculated that they should take over this hub, in order that the Russian army will have to destroy it [to take it back],
Andrei Fedorov, a former Russian deputy foreign minister, said on a state television talk show General Syrskyi reported on the completion of the liberation of the town of Sudzha from the Russian military. A Ukrainian military commandant’s office is being established there now,
said Zelenskiy, after receiving a briefing from the commander in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, on Thursday We hid in the bushes,
said Sudzha resident Tatyana Anikeyeva, speaking to Russian television from a facility helping evacuees We have a new replenishment of our ‘exchange fund’,
said Zelenskiy, commenting on the new prisoners of war This means deliveries of gas to Europe will be stopped, because of Russia’s actions, not Ukraine’s. By the way, this will hit Hungary and Slovakia very hard,
First of all, we are talking about improving the effectiveness of the command and control system in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies and the administration of the Belgorod region
We continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Kursk region. Currently, we control about 1,000 square kilometres of the territory of the Russian Federation,
Syrskii said in a video published on Zelenskyy’s Telegram account on Tuesday The creation of a buffer zone in the Kursk region is a step to protect our border communities from daily hostile shelling,
The attempts by enemy mobile units using armoured equipment to break through deeper into Russian territory have been repelled,
its Defense Ministry said The perfect scenario for us now would be for the enemy to withdraw its forces from other areas and send them to this [the Kursk] front, exposing its reserves,
It's hard for the vulnerable to dictate their terms. This situation creates a psychological and political context that could shift negotiations to follow a different logic. Now, most likely, there will be an escalation, a raising of the stakes. If Russia raises the stakes, then the West will get a kind of opportunity to raise the stakes for itself,
Analysing all the conversations I’ve had in many capitals in and outside Europe over the past six months, it seems to me that the main fear was that these countries would be drawn into the war,
The blending of the best World War II strategies, which I think Syrskyi studied at the academy, has been creatively worked on, enhanced by modern technological solutions, and has produced the maximum result,
Putin started this; kick his ass!"
Meanwhile, members of a US bipartisan delegation on an official visit to Kyiv expressed admiration, with one remarking Does anyone know whether Nina was taken away from Sudzha?"
One week on from the start of Ukraine’s operation in Kursk Oblast, fewer voices on local Telegram channels are asking I can confirm that the UN Human Rights Office has sent a request to the Russian authorities,
Liz Throssell, a spokesperson for the department, said in an email sent to AFP What's happening in Kursk is the incursion of terrorist sabotage groups, so there is no front line as such,
Russia's deputy UN ambassador, Dmitry Polyansky, told reporters Wednesday The more Russian military presence is destroyed in the border regions, the closer peace and real security will be for our state. The Russian state must be responsible for what it has done,
I would say things have become worse in our part of the front [the 110th Mechanised Brigade is deployed in the Pokrovsk district of Donetsk Oblast – ed.]. We have been getting even less ammo than before and the Russians are pushing."
Quote from Ivan Sekach, spokesperson of Ukraine's 110th Mechanised Brigade What I suspect they are watching for is this: is the power still strong? Does the old man still have it in him?”
Ekaterina Schulmann, from the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, says