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This is very bad news for Putin,
Putin no longer controls the situation. He can only try deploying more troops and attempting to recapture his lost territory,
The Russian media is already blaming the United States for being behind this Ukrainian operation,
With the latest surprise incursion into Kursk oblast, Zelensky likely aims to demonstrate to Putin that as long as there’s no peace in Ukraine, the Russian people will not sleep peacefully either,
Given the significant disparity of combat potential favoring Russia on the battlefield, Ukrainian forces appear to be switching to, or at minimum, intensifying, unconventional warfare, bringing war deeper into Russia,
Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst and author of "Putin’s Playbook, There’s a massive Ukrainian online operation – maybe on the ground – trying to get war protests fired up,
At this juncture, I would like to appeal to all sides to exercise maximum restraint in order to avoid a nuclear accident,
A substation has been attacked in the Oktyabrsky district of Kursk region,
reported eastern European news outlet NEXTA shared on X, formerly Twitter, next to footage of the site as smoke billows into the sky The 252nd battalion is in the Poroz settlement in the Belgorod region,
No situation on the battlefield can justify targeting civilians,
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said on X, while the regional governor, Vadym Filashkin, said The town is controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the town is calm, all buildings are intact,
a soldier in the video said, 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 extremely important and has been particularly effective over the past three days,
Many dead, some of the vehicles burned to the ground
A Russian channel on Telegram reported Several sources of ignition were recorded, a large fire broke out and multiple detonations were observed,
Kyiv’s military said on the Telegram messaging app We have enough forces, there are already successes there, our aviation is working,
Russian lawmaker Victor Zavarzin told state-aligned Moscow radio station Govorit Moskva on Friday when asked if the situation in the Kursk region warranted a full-scale draft effort The enemy is not only employing military weapons against us, but also so-called ‘psychological special forces’. Its goal is to sow panic among the population, to create an uncontrollable situation and chaos,