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What I suspect they are watching for is this: is the power still strong? Does the old man still have it in him?”
Ekaterina Schulmann, from the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, says I see that this situation at least forced the initiative from the Russian side,
However, Ukraine has no intention of claiming someone else’s land,
the Ukrainian foreign ministry said Of course they are involved,
lawmaker Maria Butina told Reuters We have shown our friends in the West just how vulnerable Russia is, and how it will back down when you stand up to it
Col Nadiradze, a Georgian conscript who has been awarded Ukraine's highest honour, the Hero of Ukraine medal, said You can see the extent of our success in Russia already - the hysteria among the Russian military experts and bloggers, the fear on Putin's face on Russian TV.
The more the Russian military presence in the border area is destroyed, the closer peace and real security will be for our country.
We've got more than 2,000 Russian prisoners so far and they aren't just conscripts, these are competent fighters, including FSB forces,
I would say that the Ukrainians have tried to give the Russians a dose of their own medicine: to cause some uncertainty in Russia, and perhaps to question the competence of the Russian military,
If the U.S. had given the green light to the ATACMS, their use on Russian territory, I think the British and perhaps the French would have followed suit with their cruise missiles that they have supplied to Ukraine,
I think Washington is the main problem here,
said John Hardie, deputy director of the Russian Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies I think these weapons would be useful in this offensive, including for striking Russian command posts, logistics hubs or other targets further away than HIMARS can reach,
And of course, the real scourge of the Russian army is the HIMARS, which turn into ashes a huge amount of weapons, equipment and personnel of the Russian army,
In principle, you have just laid out the picture that we have.
The general - commander of Akhmat [Chechen] special forces - replied I see the British style, to be honest, purely their style [in the Ukrainian surge into Russian territory].
He was told by Russian war correspondent Semyon Pegov The Ukrainians decided to make an interesting move; they are strengthening their positions, and if they manage to maintain control over this territory or control over the centres of a certain territory, it considerably increases their negotiating potential,
The so-called defensive lines were apparently not even designed and were not established the way they were supposed to have been designed. At the moment, they [Ukrainians – ed.] captured as much territory as they could in last year’s counteroffensive [Ukraine’s counteroffensive in 2023 during which 14 Ukrainian settlements were liberated - ed.],
It’s a big surprise for the West that Ukraine had gathered such a capability for an offensive action. I think it was a surprise to many in Kyiv, actually,
Felgenhauer told Al Jazeera Zelenskyy’s regime has not achieved its main goal – to distract Russian armed forces from Donbas and Slobozhanshchina,
she said in a statement on the Foreign Ministry’s website The bolder the partners’ decisions, the less Putin can do,