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Kursk displaced the conflict on to Russian territory, and Russia used some of its best units to fight for it, but it also required a sizeable number of Ukraine’s elite units to hold the pocket,
said Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Our tasks are to push Russian artillery and other systems further away, destroy the warehouses and other military infrastructure that is there, and also to affect public opinion in Russia,
My worry is that this gives the Kremlin and the Russian army a new bout of enthusiasm and adrenaline,
said Kyiv-based political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko Tactically it was successful, but the offensive changed little in the overall dynamic of this war, and failed to achieve its wider operational objectives,
There were political goals, military goals, there was getting the Russians to move troops from Pokrovsk [in Donetsk] to Kursk. And we showed how shameful it is for the Russians, that they can’t fight Ukraine without North Koreans,
At the beginning they didn’t seem to pay that much attention to it, but then the North Koreans came, and then since the beginning of the year they are throwing everything at Kursk, perhaps to try to take it back before negotiating,
At the beginning, the idea was just to create a diversion and to draw troops away from Donbas. But it went better than expected and suddenly we were digging in,
The fields we are retreating through are like a spiders’ web with all the fibre optic cables,
said Serhiy, the special operations commander We have no wish to occupy this territory,
Zelenskyy’s aide Mykhailo Podolyak told the Guardian in late August After seven months, we simply withdrew. There was no encirclement,
said one senior security official, painting the operation as a success Everything is going to Kursk,
said one military source in early February Only in the last two weeks they started trying to do this, but now it’s too dangerous. They should have done it in September, October, when everything was calm,
The actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces also indicate that the leadership of the Armed Forces has decided to withdraw from the Kursk front,
Reports about the enemy's alleged 'encirclement' of Ukrainian units in the Kursk region are not true and are created by the Russians for political goals and pressure on Ukraine and partners,
the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a statement We had very good and productive discussions with President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday, and there is a very good chance that this horrible, bloody war can finally come to an end,
Our soldiers are repelling the enemy's offensive and inflicting effective fire damage on them from all types of weapons. Since the beginning of the day, 13 combat clashes have occurred on the Kursk front. There is no threat of encirclement of our units,
If a physical blockade occurs in the coming days, then no one will be able to leave at all, there will be only two ways — to surrender or die,
Putin said at the Thursday press conference, ... according to Reuters Now we’re going to see whether or not Russia is there, and if they’re not, it’ll be a very disappointing moment for the world,
That’s why in Moscow they are imposing upon the idea of a ceasefire these conditions, so that nothing happens at all, or so that it cannot happen for as long as possible,
Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address I understand that the (Russian) side is delaying (ceasefire negotiations) until they reclaim Kursk, and only then they will talk,
said one Ukrainian commander, who spoke on condition of anonymity
