Currently, the situation in Kurakhove is indeed quite difficult, because a significant part of the city has been destroyed,
The town of Kurakhove is effectively lost,
They are trying to destroy all houses, even low-rise buildings,
In the Kurakhove sector, the defense forces are countering the enemy's attempts to use their superiority in manpower and develop an offensive,
The enemy actively conducted assault operations in the urban area of Kurakhove,
The Europeans will have to construct security guarantees for Ukraine, which will be primarily their responsibility,
The new American president himself knows the United States has no chance of winning anything if Ukraine loses,
We believe it has the intent to share space and satellite technology with the DPRK,
The Russians have deployed their strongest units to Kursk, including soldiers from North Korea. Importantly, all this manpower cannot now be redirected to other fronts – neither to the Donetsk region, nor against Sumy, the Kharkiv region or Zaporizhzhia,
If there is going to be, at some point, a ceasefire, it's not going to be, in Putin's mind, 'game over',
During the Kursk operation, the enemy has already lost 38,000 of their soldiers in this direction alone, with nearly 15,000 of these losses being irreversible,
We are registering a concentration of enemy equipment in another direction and naturally we understand that (Ukraine) will try to strike in this direction. Right now I won't say where,
Ukraine is grinding down Russian forces. Russian gains are small relative to costs. There has been no collapse of the front,
Ukraine is losing territory. The coldest part of the winter is yet ahead. The current theory of success is unclear, or what resources will be made available by the West in 2025.”
Trump and I will come to an agreement and... offer strong security guarantees, together with Europe, and then we can talk to the Russians,
Russia is getting what it deserves,
We are committed to putting Ukraine in the strongest possible position on the battlefield, including by surging security assistance and utilising all available resources authorized by the Congress."
Ukraine has the right to defend itself, and under international law, this right extends beyond its borders,
There’s a likelihood that we haven’t seen the main thrust of this Ukrainian offensive operation just yet,
For two months of hostilities near Kurakhovo, the daily losses of the AFU averaged from 150 to 180 servicemen killed and wounded,