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What I suspect they are watching for is this: is the power still strong? Does the old man still have it in him?”
Ekaterina Schulmann, from the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, says I see that this situation at least forced the initiative from the Russian side,
However, Ukraine has no intention of claiming someone else’s land,
the Ukrainian foreign ministry said You can see the extent of our success in Russia already - the hysteria among the Russian military experts and bloggers, the fear on Putin's face on Russian TV.
We've got more than 2,000 Russian prisoners so far and they aren't just conscripts, these are competent fighters, including FSB forces,
We have shown our friends in the West just how vulnerable Russia is, and how it will back down when you stand up to it
Col Nadiradze, a Georgian conscript who has been awarded Ukraine's highest honour, the Hero of Ukraine medal, said The more the Russian military presence in the border area is destroyed, the closer peace and real security will be for our country.
I would say that the Ukrainians have tried to give the Russians a dose of their own medicine: to cause some uncertainty in Russia, and perhaps to question the competence of the Russian military,
If the U.S. had given the green light to the ATACMS, their use on Russian territory, I think the British and perhaps the French would have followed suit with their cruise missiles that they have supplied to Ukraine,
I think Washington is the main problem here,
said John Hardie, deputy director of the Russian Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies The grouping of defense forces continues to conduct an offensive operation on the territory of the Kursk region,
Ukraine’s top military commander, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, told President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a video conference on Wednesday I think these weapons would be useful in this offensive, including for striking Russian command posts, logistics hubs or other targets further away than HIMARS can reach,
And of course, the real scourge of the Russian army is the HIMARS, which turn into ashes a huge amount of weapons, equipment and personnel of the Russian army,
We continue to advance further in the Kursk region, ... from one to two km in various areas since the start of the day".
Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram Of course they are involved,
lawmaker Maria Butina told Reuters It’s a big surprise for the West that Ukraine had gathered such a capability for an offensive action. I think it was a surprise to many in Kyiv, actually,
Felgenhauer told Al Jazeera The bolder the partners’ decisions, the less Putin can do,
Zelenskyy’s regime has not achieved its main goal – to distract Russian armed forces from Donbas and Slobozhanshchina,
she said in a statement on the Foreign Ministry’s website They have grabbed territory, they have mixed up Russian overall plans, but this offensive in the north and this breakthrough has not yet brought strategic fruit,
People around the world will note that Ukraine has really showed skill, great operational security ... excellent planning and, above all, excellent execution of that plan,