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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 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 Let's sit down at the negotiating table and end this brawl."
But he pleaded with Mad Vlad If necessary, Putin and I will decide and bring in strategic weapons."
The ageing tyrant even warned he Neither the Ukrainian people, nor the Russians, nor the Belarusians need it. They (the West) need it."
In his recent interview, filmed last weekend after the Kursk invasion was launched, Lukashenko instead said 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 are not going to use any weapons until you step on our state border,
We don't want escalation and we don't want a war against the whole of NATO. We don't want that,
The situation in the Belgorod region continues to be extremely difficult and tense,
Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app 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 While the Ukrainians have reversed the public narrative about being on the defensive, ... it seems unlikely they would want to sustain a large incursion for months; they will have a decision to make about the best time to trade in the ground they have captured, and to what end.”
While in three weeks of February the enemy managed to advance approximately 15 kilometres [9 miles] in the Avdiivka direction, in the next four months – only a little more than 10 kilometres [6 miles],
Chief of Staff Syrskii has already reported several times – regarding the front and our actions and pushing the war into the territory of the aggressor,
Zelenskyy said in an evening address