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We are starting the forced evacuation of families with children from the Pokrovsk community,
Donetsk governor Vadym Filashkin said, ordering the "compulsory" evacuation of children and their parents from Pokrovsk and about a dozen surrounding villages We are achieving our goals. This morning we have another replenishment of the (prisoner of war) exchange fund for our country,
Zelensky said, referring to more Russian troops being taken prisoner Conscripts in the Kursk region surrender by the thousands because they want to live. Thousands of regular troops are about to be surrounded and nobody cares about them. Everything happens strictly according [to] Putin’s plan that simply does not exist,
the Lithuanian diplomat is convinced Whoever tries to interfere with us should know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences as you have never experienced in your history,
At the outset he warned in a broadcast We have a nuclear doctrine, look what it says
Two months ago, Putin warned At the current stage, given this escapade, we are not going to talk.” ... The length
In comments reported on Monday by Russian state media, Mr. Putin’s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said Although Putin does have an iron grip, the fact that so many people are talking and understanding what is happening, he's got to sort this out very quickly,
Politically, the purpose of the operation is to build leverage ahead of possible negotiations,
Jack Watling, a senior research fellow for Land Warfare at the Royal United Services Institute, wrote in the Guardian Ukraine has the right to self defense enshrined in international law,
Germany's foreign ministry said in a statement to Politico earlier this month The Ukrainian government wants to make sure that if it has to enter that process, it has things that Russia wants to trade for concessions,
I think that for Western countries this is an event in terms of changing the image of Ukraine - Kyiv's political gains are huge after less than two weeks,
This offensive does not change the anti-escalation attitude of the West,
Siemoniak said, asked in an interview with Reuters late on Friday if Kyiv's military gains could change its allies' stance on the use of arms they supply for its war with Russia Yes, of course it is always better – as Churchill said – to do things in concert with the Americans. But these are UK weapons, paid for by the UK taxpayer, and we should have the guts to decide how they can be used,
This lightning dash into the Kursk region reminds us of the key truth about the whole war: that from the beginning we have always underestimated the Ukrainians. We have underestimated their gift of surprise, the way they ruthlessly kept their latest plan a secret. We have underestimated their boldness – their willingness to do what people have thought impossible,
The only way to stop the glide bombs is to hit the air bases used by those Russian planes; and the only way to hit those bases is to use the Western kit they already have. The Ukrainians have the ATACMS system from the US, they have bunker-busting Storm Shadow missiles from the UK. What they do not have is the permissions they need to use those missiles against their tormentors,
Johnson wrote, stressing the need to give Ukraine permission to strike military targets in Russia