Many dead, some of the vehicles burned to the ground
We can and we should take more land of the Ukraine that still exists,
The price of mistakes these days will be calculated in the lives of soldiers and civilians
The town is controlled by the armed forces of Ukraine, the town is calm, all buildings are intact,
The chief [Putin] was in a poor mood … He probably hasn’t been seen [it] like this since our [Russian army] was forced to retreat from Kherson in the fall of 2022,
This is extremely important and has been particularly effective over the past three days,
Ukrainian forces are reportedly present in areas as far as 35 kilometres from the international border,
The war has come to us, so all the relatives have gone to Moscow,
In a few hours our town was turned into ruins ... Our relatives are left behind, we can't call them, there is no communication. Please help us get our land back,
Russia will be held accountable for this terror,
I would like to appeal to all sides to exercise maximum restraint in order to avoid a nuclear accident with the potential for serious radiological consequences,
About 20,000 people need to be evacuated
Everyone can see that the Ukraine army knows how to surprise and knows how to achieve results,
They clearly have achieved a degree of surprise which suggests that Russia's ability to do intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance is inadequate,
This is the war he started which has now bitten off a piece of Russia. And depending on how this plays out, how long [Ukraine] can hold the territory, can they get more territory, it's even more humiliating for Putin,
Ukraine is a total underdog, but they're a very effective underdog,
Meanwhile, [Russian army chief Valery] Gerasimov stated the other day that the Ukrainian Armed Forces group that crossed the border amounted to just under 1,000 people. So, everyone has already been killed? Then who controls the occupied territory in Kursk?"
They have used what limited tools they have to the maximum advantage to harm Russia and Putin. Everybody thought this war was going to be over in three days, and now we're two and a half years into it and Russia is suffering,
I think this is a dramatic development and something which both symbolically and militarily really has huge implications. Symbolically, this makes Putin look weak,
There is no irreversible process, nothing supernatural happened…Yes, the guys died, that's true. Several populated areas, the enemy entered there,