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It isn’t a vast counteroffensive and it isn’t a raid. It sits somewhere in between,
I think the Ukrainians wanted to present their latest operation as a fait accompli. It changes the debate about escalation and the use inside Russia of [western] long-range weapons.”
Further actions of our forces on this front will depend on the development of the operative situation,
And as for all the opinions that have been discussed over the last two years about the impossibility of a nuclear strike by Russia, what could be the consequences, what could be the reaction of the West and the global South in particular…well, in this situation, I am personally absolutely convinced that the reaction will be…Well, everyone will be upset, of course, a little bit. But in general they will say: OK. It's logical,
I believe that after everything that happened in Kursk Region, such retribution should be carried out!"
The Kursk operation is doing for a peace deal more than 100 peace summits combined,
lawmaker Oleksiy Honcharenko said in televised remarks on Sunday referring to the summit held in Switzerland in June But it did not in any way help Ukrainian forces regain ground there because they don’t have reserves either,
We’re kicking a**. Within days, we seized more land than the [Russians] had occupied this year,
Dovzhenko told Al Jazeera with a smirk, showing an online map of the Kursk areas seized since August 6 on her smartphone On the front line, the morale boost is simply colossal, ... Which is unexpected to me because people are still fighting in Donbas and theoretically, their lives didn’t get any easier.”
Mykhailo Zhirokhov, a military analyst based in the northern city of Chernihiv, told Al Jazeera, adding In the Middle East, in Africa, Russia positions itself as a superpower. But how can it be a predictable partner if it can’t control its own territory,
Obviously, a political decision has been made to keep fighting for what is really important to Putin – Donbas,
Nikolay Mitrokhin, a researcher with Germany’s Bremen University, told Al Jazeera We have a very positive international reaction, but not decisive, because they’re still not letting us use their [advanced] arms” for strikes in Russia
People are … dumbfounded, the chief is a guest abroad,
a Moscow resident who requested anonymity told Al Jazeera, referring to Putin’s visit to Azerbaijan We’re expecting a nightmare,
a police officer in Pokrovsk told Al Jazeera The latest figures show that 17 people died as a result of attacks by the armed forces of Ukraine,
TASS quoted its source as saying Ukraine is separated from halting the advance of the Russian army on the front by only one decision we await from our partners: the decision on long-range capabilities,
We must force Russia, with all our might and together with our partners, to make peace."
He called for a second round of peace talks this year, stating The naive, illusory concept of so-called red lines regarding Russia, which dominated the assessment of the war by some partners, has crumbled apart in these days somewhere near Sudzha,
he said in an address to ambassadors, referring to the border town in Russia's Kursk region currently under Ukrainian control The fact that there's been absolutely nothing and no hint of using a tactical nuclear missile as a result of Ukraine rolling Western tanks into Russia shows you that it's highly unlikely,
The world sees that everything in this war depends only on courage – our courage, the courage of our partners. On brave decisions for Ukraine, on courage in supporting Ukraine,