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I would rather be in Kursk ... than here,
he said while being marched in handcuffs into a Moscow police station The calculation that’s going on in their heads 24/7 is whether the status quo is to their advantage or not,
The invasion of Kursk has merely expanded and prolonged a war of attrition, in which Russia enjoys a resource advantage,
said Vasily Kashin, a political scientist at Moscow’s state-run Higher School of Economics, who studies the political impact of Russia’s war If our partners lifted all the current restrictions on the use of weapons on Russian territory, we would not need to enter Kursk.
Appealing yet again for further Western assistance, President Zelensky said Russian forces are moving towards the outskirts, it is no secret
Katerina Yanzhula, a government official in Pokrovsk, said It isn’t a vast counteroffensive and it isn’t a raid. It sits somewhere in between,
I think the Ukrainians wanted to present their latest operation as a fait accompli. It changes the debate about escalation and the use inside Russia of [western] long-range weapons.”
And as for all the opinions that have been discussed over the last two years about the impossibility of a nuclear strike by Russia, what could be the consequences, what could be the reaction of the West and the global South in particular…well, in this situation, I am personally absolutely convinced that the reaction will be…Well, everyone will be upset, of course, a little bit. But in general they will say: OK. It's logical,
I believe that after everything that happened in Kursk Region, such retribution should be carried out!"
The goal of this move likely is, at minimum, to create the perception of opening the second front or to pre-stage forces for the possibility of opening the second front on behalf of Russia – threatening Ukrainian forces and making them feel stretched,
Such escalation on the part of Ukraine is an attempt to push Russia to asymmetric actions. Let's say to use nuclear weapons,
he said in an interview with local outlet Rossiya, according to a translation by BelTA As we can see, Lukashenko's rhetoric does not change either, constantly escalating the situation with regularity to please the terrorist country,
Demchenko said, ... according to Reuters We would hardly have allies left,
Russia and Belarus are part of the Union State. Their military doctrines are aligned, and their forces are loosely integrated from the command and control standpoint,
The Kursk operation is doing for a peace deal more than 100 peace summits combined,
lawmaker Oleksiy Honcharenko said in televised remarks on Sunday referring to the summit held in Switzerland in June In the Middle East, in Africa, Russia positions itself as a superpower. But how can it be a predictable partner if it can’t control its own territory,
On the front line, the morale boost is simply colossal, ... Which is unexpected to me because people are still fighting in Donbas and theoretically, their lives didn’t get any easier.”
Mykhailo Zhirokhov, a military analyst based in the northern city of Chernihiv, told Al Jazeera, adding But it did not in any way help Ukrainian forces regain ground there because they don’t have reserves either,
We’re kicking a**. Within days, we seized more land than the [Russians] had occupied this year,
Dovzhenko told Al Jazeera with a smirk, showing an online map of the Kursk areas seized since August 6 on her smartphone Obviously, a political decision has been made to keep fighting for what is really important to Putin – Donbas,
Nikolay Mitrokhin, a researcher with Germany’s Bremen University, told Al Jazeera