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We don't know what to do. We cry day and night, every day. We don't know what we are going to do,
said 70-year-old Zinaida Tarasyuk, another evacuee collecting humanitarian aid I was very scared, very scared,
Nina Golinyaeva, a former resident of the border town of Sudzha, told AFP at an evacuation centre in Kursk city, the regional capital Shells were flying from all sides, helicopters, planes, fighter jets were flying over the house,
she said, recounting a dramatic night-time escape amid the fighting We will continue to maintain communication with the international community to play a constructive role for the political settlement of the crisis,
The operation in the Kursk region was also planned with the participation of NATO and Western special services,
he was quoted as saying, without offering evidence Washington's efforts have created all the prerequisites for Ukraine to lose its sovereignty and lose part of its territories,
They have also begun to construct additional defensive positions in an effort to prevent Ukrainian advances,
We need to inflict significant tactical defeats on Russia,
Podolyak wrote on the Telegram messaging app While one-third of them [the armoured vehicles] are restraining the stronghold, the others are bypassing it by entering nearby settlements and organising ambushes.”
A Russian military blogger, Rybar, semi-independent of the Kremlin, summarising the approach said We arrived on Monday last week. It had been equipped two days before that,
a surgeon told the Guardian between puffs on a cigarette The US leadership’s claims of non-involvement in Kyiv's actions in the Kursk region do not correspond to reality... Without their participation and direct support, Kyiv would not have ventured into Russian territory.”
Considering the presence of Western military equipment, the use of Western ammunition and missiles in attacks on civilian infrastructure and irrefutable proof of foreigners’ participation in the attack on Russian territory, one could come to the conclusion that the world is on the brink of a third world war,
It is apparent to us that Mr Putin and the Russian military are diverting some resources, some units, towards the Kursk Oblast to ostensibly counter what the Ukrainians are doing,
National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on Thursday There’s still active fighting along that front.”
Mr Kirby said, before adding We haven’t seen a substantial move [of Russian troops] just yet, and we can’t tell whether that’s just because they’re only just getting started moving forces, or whether they just don’t have the forces to move,
said one source familiar with US intelligence That’s the kind of mistake the Russian forces along the line of control typically don’t make,
The main risk is that the Ukrainians choose to try and consolidate and hold ground that lengthens the front line,
said Matthew Savill, military sciences director at the Royal United Services institute in London This Ukrainian operation represents a very significant effort on the part of the Ukrainians to reset the status quo in the war, and change narratives about Ukraine prospects in this war,
Russia seems to do quite poorly when it has to respond dynamically in a situation like this,
said military analyst Michael Kofman of the Carnegie Endowment in a podcast Regrettably, the group of forces protecting the border didn’t have its own intelligence assets,
he said on a channel of his messaging app