The foe is gaining a foothold, pulling reserves, increasing the presence of equipment in the region, despite the constant strikes of our aviation and drones,
The third day, and the situation has not improved,
Attempts by individual units to break through deep into the territory in the Kursk direction are being suppressed,
To eliminate the consequences of enemy forces coming into the region, I took the decision to introduce a state of emergency in the Kursk region from Aug. 7,
It is important to continue destroying our enemy … And the more pressure is exerted on Russia … the closer peace will be.”
For the first time since World War II, a foreign army is conducting a combined arms operation on the territory of Russia and taking control of settlements,
This is no longer just an operation to retake our official territories and punish the Nazis. It is possible and necessary to go to the lands of the still existing Ukraine. To Odesa, to Kharkiv, to Dnipropetrovsk, to Mykolaiv. To Kyiv and beyond,
Kursk region. Day three. Everything is according to plan.”
You can’t be a boxer and fight in the ring with one arm tied behind your back,
It’s good that Ukraine is taking actions that surprise the Russians,
Russian officials are attempting to balance presenting the effort as a notable Ukrainian escalation with avoiding overstating its potential implications and risking domestic discontent,
We have to start with the events in the Kursk region,
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,
Russian propagandist Mardan threatens a tactical nuclear strike on AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] soldiers in Kursk region,
Those warheads that could possibly be attached to some Russian missiles are capable of doing a little bit more damage,
The current confirmed extent and location of Ukrainian advances in Kursk Oblast [region] indicate that Ukrainian forces have penetrated at least two Russian defensive lines and a stronghold,
We did not [ know in advance about the Kursk operation]. But it's not unusual for the Ukrainians not to notify us of their exact tactics before they execute them. It's a war that they're conducting. We provide them with equipment. We provide them with advice. But when it comes to the kind of day by day tactics that they carry out, the day by day strikes that they take ... it's appropriate for them to make those decisions,
We need to learn a serious lesson from what happened and do what Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov pledged to the supreme commander-in-chief to do, that is, resolutely defeat and crush the enemy,
The enemy's advance deep into territory in the Kursk direction was stopped by the actions of the units covering the state border together with border guards and reinforcement units, with air strikes, missile and artillery fire,
The operation will end with the enemy's defeat and them being pushed back to the state border,