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If you throw everything you've got to Kursk, then you are playing the Ukrainian game,
With no clear commander, the Russian forces are more reactive and remain on their back feet, which has allowed the Ukrainians to expand their bridgehead,
said Ralph F. Goff, a former senior CIA official who served in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union Such hostile actions cannot remain without an appropriate response,
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin's spokesperson, told reporters Monday If you can, you might actually want to be a bit more selective about your targets,
As of now we can say the Kremlin has sent some 30,000 soldiers from other directions to Kursk, and their number is growing,
Syrskyi added during a forum in Kyiv on Tuesday As of today, we took control over 1,294 square kilometers territory there [in Kursk], 100 settlements,
As you know Russia had been shelling our territories from Kursk, causing numerous casualties among locals,
The Kursk operation diverted a significant number of its forces,
The situation on the Pokrovsk front is fairly difficult ... the enemy is using its advantage in personnel, weapons and military equipment, it is actively using artillery and aviation,
At the moment, we can state that about 30,000 Russian servicemen have been redeployed to the Kursk front, and this figure is growing,
The enemy is advancing at a very high cost... Every day our soldiers kill or wound up to 300 invaders on this front
Russian forces likely continue to operate within select areas of the Ukrainian salient in Kursk Oblast as Ukrainian forces likely do not control all of the territory within the maximalist extent of claims about Ukrainian advances in Kursk Oblast,
I hope that, as was reported today, interaction between local and regional authorities, the government, and security agencies has been established, and this will also play a positive role in achieving the goals that we have here,
Putin told the governors of the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions, and Kremlin officials The sooner Russia agrees to restore a just peace, the sooner Ukrainian raids on Russian territory will stop. As long as Putin continues the war, he will receive such responses from Ukraine,
the spokesperson told reporters in Kyiv on August 13.