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The actions taken are of a defensive nature, that is, they set up defensive lines, move units."
Careful preparation, planning, surprise, fighting spirit and informational silence became decisive in the initial stage of the operation,
the Airborne Assault Troops said in an online post The situation in the border area remains difficult, but our defenders are successfully working to destroy the enemy,
What's going on with the lights? I've got no light or water,
said a woman posting as Ekaterina Picasa The Russians had a complete intelligence failure here,
French military expert Yohann Michel, research fellow at the IESD institute in Lyon, said in an interview Right now the risk of an armed invasion of the territory of Kursk region from Ukraine is not high. However, we are constantly working to strengthen the region's defense capabilities."
The following month, he wrote Tell me please, is it true that Ukrainian tanks have broken through to Sudzha and Darino?"
User Nestik posted on Telegram We advise people to leave the town,
said one such message at 7:34 a.m. The operation will end with the smashing of the enemy and [Russian forces] reaching the state border."
At the briefing on August 7, Gerasimov told Putin It was likely easier for Ukrainian forces to progress around and through Russia's fortifications in the region, especially if they were manned by fewer or poorly trained personnel,
We worked to pre-empt them and they did not see this coming at all,
I would understand if it was difficult for the Russians to think something that big could happen,
Troops covering the state border, together with units of the border troops of the FSB of Russia, are repelling the attacks and inflicting fire on the enemy in the area of the state border and on its reserves in the Sumy region [of Ukraine],
Things happened in the past two and a half years but the scale was completely different,
I don’t even know who I hate more now: the Ukrainian army that captured our land or our government that allowed that to happen,
Nelli Tikhonova wrote on a Kursk group at the VKontakte website All those years my parents didn’t think they would be affected,
Antipova told the Observer by phone from Kursk, carefully avoiding using the word “war”, which has been officially outlawed in Russia It’s scary when you see you’re on your own and you have no one to turn to,
Officials’ reports were not scary at all: ‘100 saboteurs went in’ – but then it went up to 300, 800 … It was impossible to get a clear picture,
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