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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 Ukraine’s attack towards Kursk is completely legitimate and makes military sense,
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,
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 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,
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,
The Kremlin will almost certainly endeavor to retake Russian territory in Kursk Oblast that Ukrainian forces have seized and stop Ukrainian activity further into Russia,
We're going to continue to support Ukraine with the capabilities and the systems that they need. We don't feel like this is escalatory in any way. Ukraine is doing what it needs to do to be successful on the battlefield,
Britain participated in all such sorties. English was heard."
Adalbi Shkhagoshev, a member of the State Duma Committee told Russian media By dominating the informational landscape, Ukraine signals to Western partners that it is capable of planning and conducting complex military operations in secrecy,
Both Russian and Ukrainian forces have struggled to achieve operational surprise in the past year and a half of fighting due to the partially transparent battlefield in Ukraine,
Putin needs to demonstrate that Russia's borders are secure and that ultimately, the people within Russia aren't going to be affected too much by the conflict that's taking place in Ukraine,
Substantial Ukrainian advances within Russia would be a strategic blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin's decades-long effort to cement a legacy of Russian stability, security, and geopolitical resurgence,
The attack demonstrates that despite ongoing discussions about a so-called transparent battlefield, where every movement of each vehicle and soldier can be tracked, achieving surprise at the tactical level is still possible at this stage of the war,
Franz-Stefan Gady, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told Business Insider