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Now they have to move. And the Russians are bad at this. They are bad at logistics. It was a brilliant move by Ukraine. … They have already achieved a huge success by forcing Russia to move its troops, by demonstrating that Russia is defenseless in other areas. It’s a huge prestige blow to Putin."
Ukrainian forces appear to be able to use these small armored groups to conduct assaults past the engagement line due to the low density of Russian personnel in the border areas,
it said in an analysis of the raid When will it be possible to conduct a negotiation process in a way that we can push them or get something from them? Only when the war is not going on according to their scenarios,
It has certainly been a good week for Ukraine, which has challenged some of the most pessimistic assessments,
John Foreman, former British defense attache to Moscow and Kyiv, told Newsweek The Kyiv regime made an unprecedented attempt to destabilize the situation in a number of regions of our country,
Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee said in a statement justifying the operation “to ensure the safety of citizens and stop the threat of terrorist acts.” I thank each of our warriors — those who are destroying the Russian occupiers, holding the frontline, and ensuring that Ukraine remains on the world map,
Zelenskyy posted on X on Friday The actions of the Ukrainian army pose a direct threat" to the Kursk plant in western Russia
state news agencies cited Rosatom as saying This is extremely important and has been particularly effective over the last three days,
he said, again without making any specific reference to the Kursk incursion There is no military system in place for guarding the state border, no reserves and no second lines of defense, ... If the Ukrainian Armed Forces spent two months preparing for this, how did we miss it?”
he said on Telegram, adding The war has come to us,
one woman from the border zone told AFP at a Moscow train station on Friday, declining to give her name At the moment there is a real danger of strikes and provocations by the Ukrainian army,
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 I think we’re heading toward some kind of sustained diplomatic effort” to end the war