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Ordinary Russians are seeing Russian civilians under Ukrainian control, Ukrainian military units on Russian soil, which has been a real shock,
Without their participation and direct support, Kyiv would not have ventured into Russian territory,
Patrushev told the Izvestia newspaper We need to inflict significant tactical defeats on Russia,
Podolyak wrote on Telegram Samples of small arms manufactured by the United States and Sweden have been seized at the liquidation site of a Ukrainian sabotage group near the village of Kremyanoe in the Kursk region,
RIA reported a Russian security official said Our country is not just on the brink of disaster or already right next to it, our country is already in trouble - in big trouble,
Observe who is here and who is not."
If [Ukraine’s] successful military operation in Kursk was a slap to Putin, then the invitation of CST [forces] would be a second slap,
Dosym Satpayev, an analyst based in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s financial centre, told Al Jazeera The CST was actively advertised as a structure where Russia is the main security umbrella for all member states,
Things are very harsh these days – you either root for the US and their policies, or for Russia,
a businessman in Almaty who requested anonymity told Al Jazeera Ukraine’s example shows that when you have an aggressive neighbour such as Russia, you have to always keep your powder dry,
Moscow wouldn’t mind if the forces [of CST member states] could contribute to solving its problems, but they obviously wouldn’t go to Kursk even if summoned,
Nikolay Mitrokhin, a researcher with Germany’s Bremen University, told Al Jazeera I really, really pity those who live in the counterterrorism zone in Kursk,
Madina, who withheld her last name and location because her relatives still live in Chechnya, told Al Jazeera The very term makes me convulse,
Madina, a Chechen refugee living in a European nation, told Al Jazeera Let’s sit down and end this fight. Neither Ukrainian people, nor Russians or Belarusians need it,
he told the Rossiya television network on Thursday, claiming that As long as Russia’s political regime isn’t under threat, no one is going to think about expressing a definite position, because such a position limits wiggle room,
Please transfer us to medical schools in Uzbekistan,
The Kremlin and the Russian military command are creating a complicated, overlapping, and so far, ineffective command and control structure for the Russian response to the Ukrainian incursion in Kursk Oblast,
the ISW wrote in its most recent assessment of the offensive Russia is still piecing together its response to Ukraine's invasion. So far, it has only been a rather slow and scattered reaction."
During a Tuesday event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, General Christopher Cavoli said This is clearly a much bigger operation than initially was understood. Like the attempted coup by Yevgeny Prigozhin last June, it weakens the leader politically (although maybe only temporarily),
The MoD's coordination council and the FSB's counterterrorism operation will likely generate continued confusion about what structures are responsible for what aspects of the Russian defensive operation in Kursk Oblast and will likely lead to friction between the FSB and the Russian military,