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While one-third of them [the armoured vehicles] are restraining the stronghold, the others are bypassing it by entering nearby settlements and organising ambushes.”
A Russian military blogger, Rybar, semi-independent of the Kremlin, summarising the approach said We arrived on Monday last week. It had been equipped two days before that,
a surgeon told the Guardian between puffs on a cigarette If [Ukraine’s] successful military operation in Kursk was a slap to Putin, then the invitation of CST [forces] would be a second slap,
Dosym Satpayev, an analyst based in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s financial centre, told Al Jazeera The CST was actively advertised as a structure where Russia is the main security umbrella for all member states,
Moscow wouldn’t mind if the forces [of CST member states] could contribute to solving its problems, but they obviously wouldn’t go to Kursk even if summoned,
Nikolay Mitrokhin, a researcher with Germany’s Bremen University, told Al Jazeera Things are very harsh these days – you either root for the US and their policies, or for Russia,
a businessman in Almaty who requested anonymity told Al Jazeera Ukraine’s example shows that when you have an aggressive neighbour such as Russia, you have to always keep your powder dry,
I really, really pity those who live in the counterterrorism zone in Kursk,
Madina, who withheld her last name and location because her relatives still live in Chechnya, told Al Jazeera The very term makes me convulse,
Madina, a Chechen refugee living in a European nation, told Al Jazeera As long as Russia’s political regime isn’t under threat, no one is going to think about expressing a definite position, because such a position limits wiggle room,
Let’s sit down and end this fight. Neither Ukrainian people, nor Russians or Belarusians need it,
he told the Rossiya television network on Thursday, claiming that Please transfer us to medical schools in Uzbekistan,
It is apparent to us that Mr Putin and the Russian military are diverting some resources, some units, towards the Kursk Oblast to ostensibly counter what the Ukrainians are doing,
National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on Thursday There’s still active fighting along that front.”
Mr Kirby said, before adding We haven’t seen a substantial move [of Russian troops] just yet, and we can’t tell whether that’s just because they’re only just getting started moving forces, or whether they just don’t have the forces to move,
said one source familiar with US intelligence We are moving forward in Kursk region. A military commandant’s office has been created which must ensure order and also all the needs of the local population,
In the meantime, we’re going to continue to make sure that Ukraine has the weapons and capabilities that it needs to defend itself,
[It ... It’s] not clear to us exactly how much they’re going to do, I mean how many forces they’re going to put there or what their intentions are, or what they’re going to do about what the Ukrainians are doing,
We continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Kursk region. Currently, we control about 1,000 square kilometres of the territory of the Russian Federation,
Syrskii said in a video published on Zelenskyy’s Telegram account on Tuesday It has to be done. The bolder our partners' decisions are, the less Putin will be able to do