Current territorial gains are too limited to counterbalance territorial losses in Donbas at the negotiating table,
Putin doesn't care about Russian people, and he doesn't care about a few villages in Kursk Oblast,
Ukraine took a gamble in Kursk by committing its limited reserves and also pulling various units off the line to participate in the operation,
When looking at the next six months, much hinges on the U.S. election and both Russian and Ukrainian mobilization efforts,
Putin is not diverting forces from the axis attacking toward Pokrovsk,
At a minimum, it provides Russia with more advanced positions from which to conduct future operations, and puts more distance between its rear and front line,
For the incursion to be effective, Ukrainian personnel and military hardware had to be diverted from (Ukraine's) southeast, which in turn allowed Russian forces to score territorial gains across Donbas,
He is trying to use forces from somewhere else, or he is just saying, 'OK let's deal with Kursk later—but now Pokrovsk is more important,
The risk for Ukraine is not only those units not available for defense elsewhere to act as a stabilization force in Donetsk,
We should see the fruits of Kyiv's mobilization bill by the winter, and we'll see if the Kursk offensive engenders a wider Russian mobilization,
We should acknowledge that Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups are doing very effective work on the territory of classic Russia, in the Kursk region. I haven't seen these kinds of actions of sabotage on the enemy's territory. Perhaps I'm just unaware of them...So far, this gambit is yielding results for Zelensky—political, informational and psychological results."
All our partners should be more active—much more active—in countering Russian terror,
He is working very effectively. He is effectively supporting the actions of the anti-Russian Kyiv regime,
The problem lies with those who make decisions for these soldiers,
We expected the war to end, like he promised. But the war hasn't ended. There's even more fighting. It seems to me that it's become even more intense,
It is obvious that the request from ordinary Ukrainians is for more and more competent, decent people to hold the most important government positions,
To be honest, I don't listen to him at all anymore. It's pointless. I don't believe in anything he says. He talks a lot but does little,
You have to be here to understand what's going on here and how people live,
Zelenskyy now needs to think not about ratings, but about how to save the country and get it out of the war with the least losses,
We expected him to have a very professional team but our expectations were not met,