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I hope many prisoners will be taken there,
That large numbers of Russians are surrendering on the soil of Russia itself, casts the Russian military in a very different light,
The situation is very dynamic and there are a lot of variables and changes, so the images and videos only tell a certain part of the events,
said Emil Kastehelmi, a military analyst with Finland-based Black Bird Group that analyzes open source intelligence The Russian government has tried its best to conceal the extent of its failure in Kursk from the Russian people, but modern-day communications technology, above all social media and the internet, has made that impossible,
said Rajan Menon, director of the grand strategy program at Defense Priorities, a Washington-based think tank By geolocating images and videos and analyzing the material and the general situation in the direction, we can still say Ukraine holds the initiative and further gains are possible,
Russia does not establish who has authority … The Ministry of Defense is responsible for military operations inside Ukraine, but not inside Russia, right?,
Russia is still piecing together its response to Ukraine's invasion. So far, it has only been a rather slow and scattered reaction,
he said during an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations Separately, the Commander-in-Chief reported on the operation in Kursk Oblast. There has been new progress. Our "exchange fund" has been further replenished. Additionally, General Syrskyi reported the successful liberation of the city of Sudzha from Russian forces. A Ukrainian military commandant's office is being established there. Several other settlements have also been liberated. In total, more than eighty,
Zelensky said in his post With every passing day there is less and less time to collect personal belongings and leave for safer regions,
the Ukrainian military authorities said according to The Associated Press, urging civilians in the town to evacuation as quickly as possible There is information in both open and closed sources that all [Ukrainian troop] gatherings and military and analytical reports were communicated two weeks in advance, a month in advance, five days in advance, and two days in advance
Observe who is here and who is not."
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 other is to cast doubt on whether Putin and his government are the right people to defend Russia,
This is what the Russians have done over a long, long time and they should not be underestimated and the Ukrainians certainly are not underestimating them,
added Sullivan, whose book Midnight in Moscow outlines the run-up to Putin's invasion While there is always going to be risks associated with any war maneuver, Ukraine faced a greater risk by continuing to fight a war of attrition with Russia,
Robert Orttung, professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, told Newsweek There is a risk of overextending, and there is a risk that precious personnel and resources may be lost and that Putin may use this as a pretext for further escalation,
said Michael A. Witt, professor of international business and strategy at King's Business School, London There are opposite forces at work. One is to reinforce the narrative that Russia is under threat, which can help Putin and reinforce support through a rally-around-the-flag effect,
Putin will certainly use this to strengthen its ranks,
Vuk Vuksanovic, associate at the London School of Economics think tank, LSE IDEAS, told Newsweek The victory in the Great Patriotic War (WWII) was after catastrophic failures at the start of the war which predated the Nazi invasion in the Winter War with Finland,
Sullivan told Newsweek before the start of the Kursk incursion