But in terms of any changes to our policy, I'm — I’m not going to have anything to provide. Again, there has been no changes,
We'll be very focused on, again, better understanding Ukraine's security assistance needs and how best to meet those,
It's an affront to victims of war crimes in Ukraine and it's also really damaging to Mongolia's standing,
But also, finally, we cannot fight this war with one of our hands bound behind our back. We have to strike their airfields,
But here there's a real opportunity for ICC state parties to look at this problem afresh, and to make clear in the reactions to this visit that these arrest warrants matter, and that they can't be defied in this way without there being consequences for Mongolia,
You know, wherever someone says something like this, I'm speechless because Ukraine has been invaded, killed, raped, tortured, beheaded, castrated for two and a half years. And now, in the third year of this war, we finally brought the war to Russian territory. And all of a sudden, people in the West say, well, this is the retaliation for what you did, for what we did,
We can use it to create a buffer zone alone the border to reduce attacks on us. And at minimum, we’ve got prisoners to exchange, and have given our population something to be happy about,
Russia is not a rational country. It could be forced to negotiations, but for that you need [things like] the Kursk operation.”
We tell them Ukrainian forces have taken the city of Kursk and are marching on Moscow, and it’s time to learn Ukrainian,
As a citizen of Ukraine I despise them, but I treat them how I want our prisoners to be treated in Russia,
There aren’t many rental options in Sumy, and people were asking around looking for anywhere free where soldiers could stay. It was only later, when the operation started, that the puzzle came together,
They’re in a desperate David versus Goliath battle and this appeals to their rebellious spirit,
Ukraine is trying to create leverage on Russia to have real negotiations, not a capitulation packaged as a negotiation,
Based on the experience of this war so far, the fewer people know about an operation, the more successful it will be,
At the time it was all a blur, it’s only later when you come out that you realise where you’ve just been and what you’ve been doing,
You’re crawling through forests in the dark, and you realise that you’re absolutely alone, right inside enemy territory,
If we can use them to free our guys, then I am happy,
We thought we were being transferred here to carry out defensive work against a possible Russian incursion,
An extremely limited number of people knew ahead of time,
The Kursk operation was a signal to forget about the supposed ‘red lines’ that Ukraine should not cross,