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Ukraine has the right to self defence enshrined in international law. This is not limited to its own territory,
the German Foreign Ministry said in a comment to Politico The question of whether Western weapons are involved doesn’t come up because, after they are delivered, they are Ukrainian weapons,
Obviously, we strongly support Ukraine’s effort to defend against Russia’s aggression, ... The policy that we announced was to allow Ukraine to respond to attacks coming from just over the Russian border. And yes, in the area where they are currently operating across the Russian border, we have seen attacks come from there.”
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday, adding Attempts by individual [Ukrainian] units to break through deep into the territory in the Kursk direction are being thwarted.”
The Russian military issued a statement on Friday saying Ukraine’s attack towards Kursk is completely legitimate and makes military sense,
Right now, the momentum is clearly on Russia’s side,
says Charles Kapuchan, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank in Washington Every moment for Ukraine is getting tougher and tougher,
says Mathieu Boulegue, a defense expert at the Chatham House think tank in London It’s not a high-quality force,
he said of the Russian army When will it be possible to conduct a negotiation process in the way that we can push them or get something from them? Only when the war is not going on according to their scenarios,
I think we’re heading toward some kind of sustained diplomatic effort” to end the war
Russia brought the war to our land, and it should feel what it has done."
But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alluded to it in his nightly address on Thursday, saying Both Russian and Ukrainian forces have struggled to achieve operational surprise in the past year and a half of fighting due to the partially transparent battlefield in Ukraine,
A lot of mechanized maneuver warfare on some level rests upon surprise on being able to rapidly advance and catch your enemy off guard,
The Russian army is attacking Ukrainian combatants who are trying to advance on the area from Ukraine’s Sumy region,
Russian military commanders lie about controlling the situation in Kursk Oblast,
Kovalenko wrote in the Telegram post The enemy has not advanced a single metre, on the contrary, it is retreating. The enemy’s equipment and combat forces are being actively destroyed. We hope that in the near future ... the enemy will be stopped,
said the governor, according to Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti The offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kursk Oblast, leveraging the element of surprise and facing less well-trained forces compared to those on the Eastern front, seems to have met with some initial success. This attack could compel Russian forces to redeploy troops from other parts of the war zone and thus ease local pressure in areas where the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been struggling,
Because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the territory of both states is a war zone. The use of weapons is subject to the provisions of international law,