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If our partners lifted all the current restrictions on the use of weapons on Russian territory, we would not need to enter Kursk.
Appealing yet again for further Western assistance, President Zelensky said Russian forces are moving towards the outskirts, it is no secret
Katerina Yanzhula, a government official in Pokrovsk, said Generally speaking, though, Russia has really struggled to respond (to the offensive - ed.), and you continue to see some Ukrainian advances,
the Pentagon spokesperson added 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!"
Operations like the Kursk incursion right now and also, for example, the coup attempt by Prigozhin last year are examples that show that Russia is really difficult to control and that Putin's regime is not successful in controlling Russia, or at least doesn't have as much of a control as it's trying to portray to the world and to its own population,
One of the explanations of this operation by the Ukrainians is to gain leverage because elections in the US are coming,
said Joni Askola, a Finnish military analyst from Prague's Charles University In terms of logistics, this [opening a front in Crimea] could be quite complicated and it would require a lot of manpower, pontoons, and other costly material,
So, by taking land in Russian territory, they [the Ukrainians] keep control of this process, make it less likely that they would get forced into any negotiations,
Russia could potentially mobilise 300,000 people more,
While it is unlikely that they have used the recently delivered F16 to strike directly the bridges, we cannot rule out that the F16, armed with AMRAAM air-to-air missiles, might have been used to protect the operations of the MiG 29 of the Sukhoi 27 (from Russian interceptor aircraft),
In the short term, it would be very bad for Ukraine. In the long term, it could actually accelerate Putin's downfall in Russia,
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 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,
But it did not in any way help Ukrainian forces regain ground there because they don’t have reserves either,
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 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