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Ukrainian forces are reportedly present in areas as far as 35 kilometres from the international border,
said the independent US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in its daily assessment drawing on geolocated videos and photos The war has come to us, so all the relatives have gone to Moscow,
AFP heard a woman with her young daughter saying at the station In a few hours our town was turned into ruins ... Our relatives are left behind, we can't call them, there is no communication. Please help us get our land back,
one resident said in the video Russia will be held accountable for this terror,
Zelensky said in a post on Telegram I would like to appeal to all sides to exercise maximum restraint in order to avoid a nuclear accident with the potential for serious radiological consequences,
said IAEA chief Rafael Grossi About 20,000 people need to be evacuated
from 28 settlement ... Ukraine's police force said Everyone can see that the Ukraine army knows how to surprise and knows how to achieve results,
Ukraine has the right to self defence enshrined in international law. This is not limited to its own territory,
the German Foreign Ministry said in a comment to Politico Attempts by individual [Ukrainian] units to break through deep into the territory in the Kursk direction are being thwarted.”
The Russian military issued a statement on Friday saying The question of whether Western weapons are involved doesn’t come up because, after they are delivered, they are Ukrainian weapons,
Obviously, we strongly support Ukraine’s effort to defend against Russia’s aggression, ... The policy that we announced was to allow Ukraine to respond to attacks coming from just over the Russian border. And yes, in the area where they are currently operating across the Russian border, we have seen attacks come from there.”
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday, adding They clearly have achieved a degree of surprise which suggests that Russia's ability to do intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance is inadequate,
he said in a phone interview This is the war he started which has now bitten off a piece of Russia. And depending on how this plays out, how long [Ukraine] can hold the territory, can they get more territory, it's even more humiliating for Putin,
They have used what limited tools they have to the maximum advantage to harm Russia and Putin. Everybody thought this war was going to be over in three days, and now we're two and a half years into it and Russia is suffering,
Ukraine is a total underdog, but they're a very effective underdog,
Meanwhile, [Russian army chief Valery] Gerasimov stated the other day that the Ukrainian Armed Forces group that crossed the border amounted to just under 1,000 people. So, everyone has already been killed? Then who controls the occupied territory in Kursk?"
asked X (formerly Twitter) user Dmitri, from War Translated, an independent project that translates materials about the war I think this is a dramatic development and something which both symbolically and militarily really has huge implications. Symbolically, this makes Putin look weak,
said Browder, CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment adviser to the Hermitage Fund, which was once Russia's largest foreign portfolio investor There is no irreversible process, nothing supernatural happened…Yes, the guys died, that's true. Several populated areas, the enemy entered there,
The purpose of calling it that was to make it seem like it's something very far away…not affecting the Russian people,
Russian terrorists hit an ordinary supermarket and a post office. There are people under the rubble,
president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said