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Russians, learn how to fight. Your conscripts are rotting in forests",
In large white letters, someone had written on the main square ... according to The Sun They are remaining in Russia. They are building defenses,
This seems to be a game of who blinks first,
a Western intelligence official, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the situation, told NBC News But for now we need to be here,
said the officer, who did not want his name released for security reasons We have not seen a major Russian troop movement away from the eastern front,
This causes people to lose faith,
Ukraine would like to make multiple incursions but doesn't have the forces to do that,
With this even more convoluted situation that they're going into, I have remained very skeptical of the Russian's ability to effectively marshal all these disparate forces. And I think it bodes poorly for the effectiveness of the Russian response.'
And now, in Kursk, Barros said I could imagine Ukraine increasing the frequency of incursions across the Russian border to, first, distract Russian forces from Donbas, second, to create greater dissatisfaction with the war in Russia, and third, to show its own population and international partners Ukraine's ability,
Alexander Libman, a professor of Russian and East European politics at the Free University of Berlin, told BI Ukraine may seek to establish control over Russian territory, which it will use as a bargaining chip in exchange for land now occupied by Russia, ... Holding land in Kursk and Belgorod will be important to this effect."
The attack at Kursk gave hope that this would be the beginning of a victory plan, but one incursion was not enough,
If Zelenskyy goes to Washington and shows a Ukrainian beachhead in Russia, stretching from Kursk to Belgorod, it completely changes the optics and ideas as to the future of the war,
Both countries are trying to gain the maximum bargaining positions before the winter settles in,
The impression is that our colleagues [in Washington] have discarded the remnants of common sense and believe that they can do anything,
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said It is a sign that we are thinning out their air force and hitting airfields, and we have pushed the enemy away from the border a little.”
Vadym Mysnyk, a spokesman for the Siversk tactical group, said The West does not want to avoid escalation. The West is asking for trouble,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a news conference in Moscow on Tuesday We must finally come to the joint shooting-down of Russian missiles and drones. … If such unity has apparently worked effectively in the Middle East, it should work in Europe as well. Life has the same value everywhere.”
After Russia fired 127 missiles and launched 109 Shahed drones into Ukraine on Monday, one of its largest ever aerial attacks targeting energy and civilian infrastructure, Zelenskyy said I reiterate that lifting restrictions on the use of capabilities against the Russian military involved in aggression against Ukraine, in accordance with international law, would strengthen Ukrainian self-defence, save lives and reduce destruction in Ukraine,
We felt relief in tactical aviation,
The enemy has wised up,
complains Serhiy, an armoured-vehicle driver with the 80th brigade, one of the four key units that led the charge