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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,
Observe who is here [at the Security Council meeting] and who is not,
said the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel Politjoystic No Gerasimov this time. No mentioning Kursk region."
Gerasimov's absence at the meeting of Putin's top allies was picked up by multiple individuals, including Anton Gerashchenko, a former adviser to Ukraine's minister of internal affairs, who said on X (formerly Twitter We're going to continue to support Ukraine with the capabilities and the systems that they need. We don't feel like this is escalatory in any way. Ukraine is doing what it needs to do to be successful on the battlefield,
Britain participated in all such sorties. English was heard."
Adalbi Shkhagoshev, a member of the State Duma Committee told Russian media 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,
Russia has consistently believed legal norms do not apply to it, thus it can attack neighbouring countries with impunity
A senior adviser to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, said The mini-invasion targeted an area where Russian defences are weak
Last night, former British military intelligence officer Philip Ingram said 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,
We can only wish the Ukrainian defenders success, particularly near Kursk. The more successful they are, the sooner the Kremlin will realise that it has no future in Ukraine. This and only this can lead to a reconsideration by the aggressor,
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,
Fifty-four units of armoured vehicles, including seven tanks, were destroyed,
It is necessary to learn a serious lesson from what happened and fulfill what Chief of the General Staff V. Gerasimov promised the Supreme Commander-in-Chief - to mercilessly defeat and destroy the enemy,
Medvedev wrote on Thursday morning There is also another important political and legal consequence of what happened,
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