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as Germany’s greatest diplomat Bismarck remarked when he said One of the obvious goals of the enemy is to sow discord, strife, intimidate people, destroy the unity and cohesion of Russian society,
Putin told a televised meeting with government officials The main task is, of course, for the defense ministry to dislodge the enemy from our territories,
With more and more respected voices warning of a wider conflict in Europe it’s deeply concerning the West is not doing enough to put the Ukraine fire out."
Asked about Ukraine's recent advance into the Russian border region of Kursk, the Lieutenant Colonel and former MP for Bournemouth East, told this website We seriously need to rekindle our Cold War statecraft skills to be able to look Putin in the eye and stand up to him – conscious of the escalatory ladder. If we don’t a wider conflict in Europe is inevitable."
On the question of whether the surprise incursion into Russia by President Volodymyr Zelensky's forces ramps up the overall danger of the conflict escalating, Mr Ellwood added The latest data, not confirmed, says they've taken as much as 750 square kilometres and may have gone as far as 35 kilometres from the border."
However, former US Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst, now a senior director at the Atlantic Council told USA Today Certainly, it’s harder now for Putin to project the image of a Teflon president,
said Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow with the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House, a London-based think tank You can tell that he is absolutely terrified of the fact that Ukraine has made gains,
There is nothing. It’s as if everyone has flown to another planet, and you are left alone. And the birds stopped singing,
an elderly man called Mikhail told Russian state television from one evacuated area Tuesday He is upset that something like this could have happened,
said Callum Fraser, a research fellow in Russian and Eurasian security at the Royal United Services Institute, or RUSI, a London-based think tank One of the justifications that he routinely uses for the invasion of Ukraine is the security of the Russian state. The fact that Ukraine has launched this incursion into Russian territory, I think, is absolutely humiliating for him,
What he does next, of course, will depend on how the situation on the ground progresses,
The troops are fulfilling their tasks. Fighting continues actually along the entire front line. The situation is under our control."
It’s obvious that the enemy will keep trying to destabilize the situation in the border zone to try to destabilise the domestic political situation in our country.”
Russia brought war to others. Now it is coming home."
He did not elaborate but added With the latest surprise incursion into Kursk oblast, Zelenskyy likely aims to demonstrate to Putin that as long as there’s no peace in Ukraine, the Russian people will not sleep peacefully either,
The enemy will certainly get the response he deserves, and all our goals, without doubt, will be accomplished,
The West is fighting us with the hands of the Ukrainians,
Putin told them at his home outside the capital city of Moscow, ... according to a report from The New York Times