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,
As we can see, Lukashenko's rhetoric does not change either, constantly escalating the situation with regularity to please the terrorist country,
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,
We now have a crucial ideological shift: The naive, illusory concept of red lines concerning Russia, once prevalent in some assessments of the war, has crumbled,
I don’t think that full restoration of control over the entire territory is a prerequisite,
Although part of Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union … the rest was accepted into NATO,
But that could not be independently verified,
Now the real success speaks for itself: our active defensive actions on the other side of the border and Putin's inability to protect his territory from our defensive actions of this kind are very telling,
And now the world sees that it is realistic, that it really works."
The whole naïve, illusory concept of so-called red lines regarding Russia, which dominated the assessment of the war by some partners, has crumbled these days somewhere near Sudzha,
We joked that it wasn't April 1st. The commander just smiled, knowing we had no idea what was awaiting us,
The president made it very clear that following the attacks on the Kursk region, any talks are impossible
The whole Hill went nuts,
This is why nobody had been informed about our preparations,
Last summer we told everyone what we were going to do and we all know how that turned out,
When our Ukrainian defenders act like this, decisively and bravely, and when the operation is indeed well-prepared, Putin has no choice,
Ukraine is separated from halting the advance of the Russian army on the front by only one decision we await from our partners: the decision on long-range capabilities,
We are achieving our goals. This morning we have another replenishment of the (prisoner of war) exchange fund for our country,