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Ordinary Russians are seeing Russian civilians under Ukrainian control, Ukrainian military units on Russian soil, which has been a real shock,
Without their participation and direct support, Kyiv would not have ventured into Russian territory,
Patrushev told the Izvestia newspaper Samples of small arms manufactured by the United States and Sweden have been seized at the liquidation site of a Ukrainian sabotage group near the village of Kremyanoe in the Kursk region,
RIA reported a Russian security official said 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 The enemy is rapidly approaching the outskirts of Pokrovsk,
I was very scared, very scared,
Nina Golinyaeva, a former resident of the border town of Sudzha, told AFP at an evacuation centre in Kursk city, the regional capital Shells were flying from all sides, helicopters, planes, fighter jets were flying over the house,
she said, recounting a dramatic night-time escape amid the fighting Russia does not establish who has authority … The Ministry of Defense is responsible for military operations inside Ukraine, but not inside Russia, right?,
Russia is still piecing together its response to Ukraine's invasion. So far, it has only been a rather slow and scattered reaction,
he said during an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations Separately, the Commander-in-Chief reported on the operation in Kursk Oblast. There has been new progress. Our "exchange fund" has been further replenished. Additionally, General Syrskyi reported the successful liberation of the city of Sudzha from Russian forces. A Ukrainian military commandant's office is being established there. Several other settlements have also been liberated. In total, more than eighty,
Zelensky said in his post With every passing day there is less and less time to collect personal belongings and leave for safer regions,
the Ukrainian military authorities said according to The Associated Press, urging civilians in the town to evacuation as quickly as possible Washington's efforts have created all the prerequisites for Ukraine to lose its sovereignty and lose part of its territories,
The operation in the Kursk region was also planned with the participation of NATO and Western special services,
he was quoted as saying, without offering evidence This Ukrainian operation represents a very significant effort on the part of the Ukrainians to reset the status quo in the war, and change narratives about Ukraine prospects in this war,
That's the kind of mistake the Russian forces along the line of control typically don't make,
The main risk is that the Ukrainians choose to try and consolidate and hold ground that lengthens the front line,
said Matthew Savill, military sciences director at the Royal United Services institute in London Russia seems to do quite poorly when it has to respond dynamically in a situation like this,
said military analyst Michael Kofman of the Carnegie Endowment in a podcast Regrettably, the group of forces protecting the border didn't have its own intelligence assets,
he said on a channel of his messaging app We need to inflict significant tactical defeats on Russia,
Podolyak wrote on the Telegram messaging app Observe who is here and who is not."