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Many people are seeing what is happening around Pokrovsk, and they are asking the question, 'why are we doing this Kursk thing if there is a difficult situation around Pokrovsk?'
Many units in the Pokrovsk area have the problem that they cannot hold the line or they have to retreat because they are just staffed by 10 or 20 or 30 percent—and they lack personnel,
added Lange, nonresident senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). What we see in Pokrovsk is the result of the very late and insufficient mobilization effort that was delayed politically in Ukraine,
Nico Lange, ex-chief of staff for Germany's Defense Ministry, told Newsweek Our operation is aimed to restore our territorial integrity,
For now, we need it,
he said of the territory Ukraine is now holding in Russia Yes, we did not inform anyone. And it’s not the question of lack of trust,
We don’t need their land. We don’t want to bring our Ukrainian way of life there,
he said during his first one-on-one interview since Ukraine’s high-stakes incursion into Russia I believe this war will end exactly how Western policymakers want it to end. Right now, Western policymakers are unable to morally or intellectually understand what a Ukrainian win would mean. Putin defeated, Russia's military defeated."
Ukraine can win this war" if the West ceases to place limitations on it
It is now no longer the Ukrainians lying on their back for nine-plus months at a time simply trying their best to triage,
If Ukraine is able to strike Russian equipment supply and personnel before they get to Ukraine, I think Ukraine can win this war."
That's the only language Putin understands. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin has only made cynical statements about Ukrainians who had to withdraw their soldiers from their own territories and stop defending their land,
Putin, after his press secretary's recent statement that negotiations with Ukraine 'have lost their relevance,' suddenly claimed that he has never refused dialogue,
I am sure that this provocation will fail as well. It seems to me there will be a desire to really, not in words but in deeds, move on to peace negotiations and resolve these issues by peaceful means. We have never given up on this, but we must, of course, deal with these bandits who have entered the territory of the Russian Federation,
In defending itself against these two barbaric war machines, Ukraine is forced to fight with hands tied behind its back. Isn't this absurd?"
Kuleba said in a post on X, formerly Twitter It would be awkward to lie, so I will tell it like it is, though it’s not a good example — today I slept four hours, this is not enough and usually I sleep about six hours.”
The de facto Russian leader was also asked how he slept at night, to which he responded The result is clear. Yes, people are going through difficult experiences, especially in the Kursk region. But the main aim that the enemy had — to stop our offensive in Donbas — it did not achieve,
Their calculation was to stop our offensive actions in key parts of the Donbas. The result is known... They did not achieve stopping our advance in the Donbas,
Putin told school children in Siberia It is entirely justified for Ukrainians to respond to Russian terror by any means necessary to stop it,
President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Facebook On September 2 overnight, the Russian occupiers carried out a missile attack on Kiev, Sumy and Kharkiv regions using ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and anti-aircraft guided missiles, and attacked with Shahed-type UAVs from the south,
the Ukranian air force said