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Despite difficult and intense battles, our forces continue to advance in the Kursk region, and our state's 'exchange fund' is growing. Seventy-four settlements are under Ukrainian control,
Zelensky said in a video address to the nation on Tuesday Companies' licenses for the right to repair military equipment of Russian [Soviet] production are being revoked, deliveries of spare parts and components are being suspended, and other measures are being taken to counter the illegal transfer of domestic weapons to Ukraine,
he told state-run news agency RIA Novosti These new capabilities include artillery systems, artillery rounds and armored personnel carriers,
U.S. President Joe Biden said in April 2022, announcing an $800 million security package Of course, a state that is attacked has the right to defend itself. This also means that they have the right under international law to take action on Russian territory as long as they abide by those laws,
said Lars Klingbeil, co-chairman of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), in an interview with public broadcaster ARD The elections in the east are also a vote on war and peace."
Sahra Wagenknecht told public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk Attacks by Ukraine against military targets on Russian territory are not only permissible under international law, they are also necessary in terms of military strategy and make perfect sense."
Roderich Kiesewetter, a national security expert from the largest opposition party, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), told DW at the beginning of the year Now all of us in Ukraine should act as unitedly and efficiently as we did in the first weeks and months of this war, when Ukraine took the initiative and began to turn the situation to the benefit of our state,
Zelenskiy said in his nightly address on Tuesday The situation still remains difficult,
said Yuri Podolyaka, a Ukrainian-born pro-Russian military blogger Russian authorities will likely remain extremely averse to pulling Russian military units engaged in combat from [Donetsk] and will likely continue deploying limited numbers of irregular forces to Kursk … due to concerns about further slowing the tempo of Russian operations in these higher priority directions,
When explosions started near the city, when people were dying and when all this started happening before our eyes … and when it affected people personally, they stopped at least openly supporting [the war],
Russia is trying very hard to downplay the Ukrainians' successes,
We are expanding the area of active operations. The Commander-in-Chief reported that our forces control 74 settlements in the Kursk region,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an address on Tuesday, citing Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi We have proven once again that we, Ukrainians, are capable of achieving our goals in any situation—capable of defending our interests and our independence,
The Russians understand the motivations of Ukraine as trying to strengthen its negotiating position, so that rather than Ukraine always being pressured to give up territory, now it holds some Russian territory it has more agency and can propose land swaps,
We have no restrictions on what weapons Ukraine can use or how they are employed. The starting point is that Ukraine has every right to defend itself within the framework of international law,
Simple calls to Russia do not work, only a set of coercive tools works,
he said, meaning economic and diplomatic pressure as well This is destruction of war infrastructure and formation of so-called sanitary zones so that Russia cannot use there ... equipment that strikes deep into the territory of Ukraine,
Never ask how sausages or politics are made.
as Germany’s greatest diplomat Bismarck remarked when he said But from the top came the order not to panic and that those above know better,
The enemy, with the help of its Western masters — it is doing their bidding, and the West is waging war against us using Ukrainians,
he said, according to state-controlled outlet TASS