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Nobody likes the truth in our reports. We all want to hear that everything is fine.”
And he had a broader criticism for the army, after local media reported that the Russian Army chief Valery Gerasimov was caught spreading positive-but-false information while reporting last week on the Kursk situation I was in the Kursk region, I saw how minefields are equipped, but they are ineffective without troops behind them. Who planned this? Who thought about it? This is serious,
Andrei Gurulev — a Russian lawmaker, member of Putin’s United Russia party and a former deputy commander — wrote on Telegram on Monday One way or another, we have heard that second echelons, reserves have appeared,
he wrote, without specifying on which side those troops have appeared But what kind of negotiations can we even talk about with people who indiscriminately attack civilians, or threaten our nuclear power plants?”
It is now clear why the Kyiv regime refused our proposals to return to a peaceful settlement plan
In remarks broadcast this afternoon, Putin declared The enemy will certainly receive a worthy response, and all the goals facing us will, without a doubt, be achieved,
There is contradictory and sometimes intentionally falsified information about the operation that was prepared apparently in great secrecy,
Wolfgang Büchner said from Berlin The high probably of losing a large number of forces in this scenario makes it a strategic and political liability,
Ryan wrote in a Substack article published as an op-ed in the English-language newspaper Kyiv Post on Monday In the Kursk direction, the enemy continues to make attempts to build on the successes of previous days,
We have been recording a sharp decrease in guided bomb strikes in recent days. If our border area has seen from 30 to 60 guided bomb strikes per day, now no more than 10,
Oleh Syniehubov, the governor, told national TV The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces are increasing dramatically for them, including among the most combat-ready units, units that the enemy is transferring to our border,
Putin told a televised meeting with top security officials and regional governors We see a trend. The number of those who want talks is increasing,
Kyiv-based analyst Volodymyr Fesenko said It’s a simple ceasefire without an agreement on the territorial issue,
No one knows what concessions to make because, firstly, they will not satisfy the Russian dictator and, secondly, who will take responsibility for handing over the lands for which so much blood had been shed?”
Ukraine must opt for a colonial existence within the Russian empire – something it would never agree to,
Otherwise ... he concluded People don’t want the war and want same things as before – no concessions, just give us back what is ours,
said the mother of two who withheld her last name because of relatives who remain in the Russia-occupied region A return to Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders, a ban for Russia to conduct military drills no closer than 300km [186 miles] from Ukraine’s borders
the bearded serviceman said as he counted out the conditions on his fingers The power of diplomacy may help,
We don’t like these polls. They are manipulative,
Hannah, who fled the Russia-occupied part of southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region last year, told Al Jazeera Ukrainians see a prospect of a long war, a difficult war, a bloody war,
Lieutenant General Ihor Romanenko, former deputy head of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, told Al Jazeera