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I can tell you that our losses, particularly irretrievable losses, are certainly significantly smaller than those of the opposite party,
the president said, according to the state-run Tass news agency This is another targeted attack on a crowded place, another act of terror by the Russians,
Donetsk regional head Vadym Filashkin said in a Telegram post The lack of a coherent Russian response to the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk … and the reported rate of Ukrainian advance indicates that Ukrainian forces were able to achieve operational surprise,
the Washington-based ISW said late Thursday The operational situation in the Kursk region remains difficult,
Kursk acting governor Alexei Smirnov said on Telegram In my opinion, it's difficult to even call it a raid; this is a full-fledged combined arms operation that Ukraine's Armed Forces have initiated on the territory of our country,
By the end of the day yesterday, parts of Sudzha were under the control of Ukrainians. They have entered it. According to what I have read and have heard, Russian Army reserves are being pulled into the Kursk region,
Suddenly, the Ukrainian side has demonstrated its ability to attack and to conduct successful action,
Ukrainians are in the Kursk region; part of Sudzha is under Ukrainian control. It's a regional center. Yes, it's true. There is no official confirmation, but it's true. There are tanks, there are armored personnel carriers, there is a colossal number of drones...,
According to the scarce, unverified comments that I would doubt 10 times over, all of this resembles chaos—a word that members of the military don't like,
said Mardan, criticizing the lack of information on the situation from the Kremlin Judging by the look of the column, about half of the troops were killed,
military analyst Yan Matveyev said Russia brought the war to our land and should feel what it has done
To eliminate the consequences of the detonation of
he said in a post at around 4:00 am, listing evacuation orders for four settlements on the outskirts of Lipetsk city In order to hit a convoy with [missiles] aimed at a considerable distance and corrected by satellite navigation, it is necessary that this very convoy, like a herd of stupid sheep, stood in the open and did not move anywhere until a reconnaissance drone found it, transmitted information and worked on it
Respected warblogging channel Military Informer, with 607,000 followers, declared Reportedly, this is a strike on a Russian training site in Zaporizhzhia region with GMLRS missiles and ATACMS cluster missiles,
said Anton Gerashchenko, a former adviser to Ukraine's minister of internal affairs, on X (formerly Twitter), on Friday We have supported Ukraine from the very beginning to defend themselves against attacks that are coming across the border and for the need for crossfires,
The entire airfield is on fire, look - what the f*** is going on.”
A local from the Syrskoye base said In early August we cleared the Morozovsk airfield of guided bombs and fighters, today it's the turn of Lipetsk-2,
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 Geolocated footage and Russian claims indicate that Ukrainian forces continued rapid advances further into Kursk Oblast on August 8 (Thursday), and Ukrainian forces are reportedly present in areas as far as 35 kilometers from the international border with Sumy Oblast
in Ukraine ... the institute said in its daily campaign assessment The Air Force's air surveillance troops detected and monitored the movement of 27 attack drones. As a result of combat efforts, all enemy UAVs were shot down by mobile firing groups of the Ukrainian defence forces, and anti-aircraft missile units and electronic warfare assets of the Air Force in Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts