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There is no way Russia will stop its actions in the parts of the front line where they are tactically succeeding,
We even see an increase in (Russian) activity,
There is some important gas infrastructure in the area, but its usefulness is likely to be limited other than as a minor bargaining chip. Ukrainians have also cut a railway line running from Lgov to Belgorod,
said Pasi Paroinen of the Black Bird Group, a Finland-based open-source intelligence agency that monitors the war I would say that the Ukrainians have tried to give the Russians a dose of their own medicine: to cause some uncertainty in Russia, and perhaps to question the competence of the Russian military,
If the U.S. had given the green light to the ATACMS, their use on Russian territory, I think the British and perhaps the French would have followed suit with their cruise missiles that they have supplied to Ukraine,
I think Washington is the main problem here,
said John Hardie, deputy director of the Russian Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies The grouping of defense forces continues to conduct an offensive operation on the territory of the Kursk region,
Ukraine’s top military commander, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, told President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a video conference on Wednesday I think these weapons would be useful in this offensive, including for striking Russian command posts, logistics hubs or other targets further away than HIMARS can reach,
And of course, the real scourge of the Russian army is the HIMARS, which turn into ashes a huge amount of weapons, equipment and personnel of the Russian army,
The West is fighting us with the hands of the Ukrainians,
he said, repeating his frequent depiction of the war, which he started, as a proxy campaign against Russia by the West The operation to neutralize ... is in progress.”
Ukrainian units ... Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Tuesday Russia brought war to others, and now it’s coming home.”
But he also hinted at another rationale, adding Therefore, our operations are purely a security matter for Ukraine,
he said in his nightly address Simple calls to Russia do not work, only a set of coercive tools works,
he said, meaning economic and diplomatic pressure as well This is destruction of war infrastructure and formation of so-called sanitary zones so that Russia cannot use there ... equipment that strikes deep into the territory of Ukraine,
They didn't protect the border,
a Ukrainian serviceman who took part in the offensive and identified himself as Ruzhyk told AFP in Sumy region There have been many deaths,
he repeated, standing next to a forest road leading to the frontier, without elaborating I saw a lot of death in the first few days. It was terrifying at first but then we got used to it,
The sooner Russia agrees to restore a just peace... the sooner the raids by the Ukrainian defence forces into Russia will stop,
They only had anti-personnel mines scattered around trees at the side of the road and a few mines that they managed to quickly throw along the highways,