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Politically, the purpose of the operation is to build leverage ahead of possible negotiations,
Jack Watling, a senior research fellow for Land Warfare at the Royal United Services Institute, wrote in the Guardian Ukraine has the right to self defense enshrined in international law,
Germany's foreign ministry said in a statement to Politico earlier this month The Ukrainian government wants to make sure that if it has to enter that process, it has things that Russia wants to trade for concessions,
I think that for Western countries this is an event in terms of changing the image of Ukraine - Kyiv's political gains are huge after less than two weeks,
This offensive does not change the anti-escalation attitude of the West,
Siemoniak said, asked in an interview with Reuters late on Friday if Kyiv's military gains could change its allies' stance on the use of arms they supply for its war with Russia Yes, of course it is always better – as Churchill said – to do things in concert with the Americans. But these are UK weapons, paid for by the UK taxpayer, and we should have the guts to decide how they can be used,
This lightning dash into the Kursk region reminds us of the key truth about the whole war: that from the beginning we have always underestimated the Ukrainians. We have underestimated their gift of surprise, the way they ruthlessly kept their latest plan a secret. We have underestimated their boldness – their willingness to do what people have thought impossible,
The only way to stop the glide bombs is to hit the air bases used by those Russian planes; and the only way to hit those bases is to use the Western kit they already have. The Ukrainians have the ATACMS system from the US, they have bunker-busting Storm Shadow missiles from the UK. What they do not have is the permissions they need to use those missiles against their tormentors,
Johnson wrote, stressing the need to give Ukraine permission to strike military targets in Russia The enemy is rapidly approaching the outskirts of Pokrovsk,
Shells were flying from all sides; helicopters, planes, and fighter jets were flying over the house,
she said, recounting a dramatic nighttime escape amid the fighting I was very scared—very scared,
Nina Golinyaeva, a former resident of the border town of Sudzha, told AFP at an evacuation center in Kursk city, the regional capital Let them give (Russia) a hammering for every child's tear,
We thought we were leaving for a couple of days, maybe,
she said, recalling her fear at the shelling and a night spent in a cellar We see that the occupier is suffering losses, and this is useful—very useful for our defense."
The president said in his evening address We have absolutely no plans to beg: 'Please, sit down to negotiate,
We don't know what to do. We cry day and night, every day. We don't know what we are going to do,
said 70-year-old Zinaida Tarasyuk, another evacuee collecting humanitarian aid