The mini-invasion targeted an area where Russian defences are weak
Russia has consistently believed legal norms do not apply to it, thus it can attack neighbouring countries with impunity
Britain participated in all such sorties
The Russian army is attacking Ukrainian combatants who are trying to advance on the area from Ukraine’s Sumy region,
Russian military commanders lie about controlling the situation in Kursk Oblast,
The choice of timing for this attack has mainly taken into consideration the opportunity presented by the change in the Russian military leadership and the rotation of frontline Russian troops,
With Western voices now calling for negotiations with Russia, Ukraine wants to demonstrate its combat capabilities and determination at this juncture to avoid being quickly abandoned,
War is war, with its own rules, where the aggressor inevitably reaps corresponding outcomes."
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have launched a up to 25K, or small NATO Corps sized, incursion into the Kursk Oblast that is moving between 7 & 10 km a day,
As a military strategy, I remain a bit puzzled, but as a political strategy, it has been very successful. It suggests yet again that Putin’s ‘red lines’ are only words and that Russia is not as strong as some make out.”
The enemy has not advanced a single metre, on the contrary, it is retreating. The enemy's equipment and combat forces are being actively destroyed. We hope that in the near future ... the enemy will be stopped,
Attempts by individual units to break through deep into the territory in the Kursk direction are being suppressed,
Ukrainians know how to achieve their goals,
When will it be possible to conduct a negotiation process in the way that we can push them or get something from them? Only when the war is not going on according to their scenarios,
We are confident that the Mexican government would comply in any case with the international arrest warrant by handing over the aforementioned [Putin] to the United Nations judicial body in The Hague,
In the past 24 hours, our region has been heroically countering the attacks of Ukrainian Nazis,
The main thing [about the attack] is energy supplies. The more destabilised they are, the more destabilised the Russian economy is,
It’s not about a public relations move or about the extra resources that we have,
Things in the east are pretty bad, and this raid will for a while blind everyone at home – ‘Look, how ballsy we are. We’re kicking a** on their turf,
So far, the reconnaissance raid is somewhat lucky,