Russia war in Ukraine

President of Ukraine

21 Mar 2024 3 1

Rob Bauer

Inserted 4 weeks ago

“Ukraine needs even more support. And you need it now. Time in Ukraine is not measured in days, weeks or months. It is measured in human lives. While the world may have been overly optimistic in 2023, we should not make the same mistake becoming overly pessimistic in 2024.”

Aje

Chair of the NATO Military Committee

21 Mar 2024 1 2

Tim Less

Inserted 1 month ago

“Putin is… planning to mobilise more men, once the election is over. Among other things, he has banned the exit of fighting-age men from the country and banned the antiwar candidate, Boris Nadezhdin, from standing in the election, for fear he may generate opposition to the war effort. Putin appears to have concluded that further mobilisation is essential to press home Russia's advantage on the battlefield and that this is what he will do.”

Lecturer at Cambridge University's Centre for Geopolitics

18 Mar 2024 5 2

Jens Stoltenberg

Inserted 1 month ago

“The Ukrainians are not running out of courage, they are running out of ammunition. NATO allies are not providing Ukraine with enough ammunition and that has consequences on the battlefield every day. It is one of the reasons why the Russians have been able to make some advance on the battlefield over the last weeks and months. It is an urgent need for allies to make the decisions necessary to step and provide more ammunition to Ukraine. That's my message to all capitals. We have the capacity, the economies, to be able to provide Ukraine what they need. This is a question of political will. To take the decisions and to prioritise support for Ukraine.”

Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

14 Mar 2024 6 2

Maria Zakharova

Inserted 1 month ago

“As a result of the ill-considered provocative actions of even one or two EU or NATO member states, the Ukrainian crisis could absolutely go beyond its geographical borders, acquire a completely different scale and develop uncontrollably. Accordingly, the question today is how to avoid the risks of further escalation. They are obvious and frightening to all sensible people.”

Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman

13 Mar 2024 3 5

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 month ago

“For Putin, a ceasefire would be a breath of fresh air. This would not be [peace] negotiations, but a way to restore the combat capability of the army and train young conscripts.”

Aje

President of Ukraine

12 Mar 2024 4 4

Steven Basham

Inserted 1 month ago

“If you can actually control the economy, then you can probably move a little bit faster than other countries out there. But the West will have more sustaining power. The West is just starting their ramp-up of building the infrastructure to add in the munitions capability that is needed.”

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Deputy commander of US European Command

11 Mar 2024 3 4

Dmitry Peskov

Inserted 1 month ago

“It is quite understandable that he [the pope] spoke in favour of negotiations. Unfortunately, both the statements of the Pope and the repeated statements of other parties, including ours, have recently received absolutely harsh refusals.”

Kremlin spokesman

11 Mar 2024 3 3

Serhii Kuzan

Inserted 1 month ago

“Russia's army is currently attacking multiple places all along the more than 600-mile front line to probe Ukraine's defenses. Which of them will be prioritized, for example, in two days or next week, will depend on how well they succeed in pushing through our defense. Where they succeed in pushing through, they will deploy additional reserves to build on their success. This is their strategy.”

Chairman of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, a nongovernmental research group

09 Mar 2024 1 2

Pasi Paroinen

Inserted 1 month ago

“Russian forces seem to be attempting to push forward using small infantry assault groups, but are being decimated in the relatively open terrain west of Avdiivka.”

Analyst from the Black Bird Group, which analyzes satellite imagery and social media content from the battlefield

09 Mar 2024 3 2

Thibault Fouillet

Inserted 1 month ago

“The capture of Avdiivka has not led to the collapse of Ukrainian lines, the possibility for the Russians to move onto open ground or even to make major gains. There's no decisive action or breakthrough.”

Deputy director of the Institute for Strategic and Defense Studies, a French research center

09 Mar 2024 3 2

Pasi Paroinen

Inserted 1 month ago

“Outside of Avdiivka there are new positions being prepared, but they do not yet constitute a particularly formidable defensive line and are not comparable in scale to Russia's fortifications in the south.”

Analyst from the Black Bird Group, which analyzes satellite imagery and social media content from the battlefield

02 Mar 2024 3 2

Ivar Dale

Inserted 1 month ago

“I noticed during Putin's speech that he said Russia did not start the war. He thought about the risks, he decided to do it, and he failed. The right thing to do now is to withdraw all troops from Ukraine, and not continue to threaten innocent people with a nuclear holocaust.”

Senior policy adviser with the rights watchdog Norwegian Helsinki Committee

01 Mar 2024 4 3

Alisher Ilkhamov

Inserted 1 month ago

“Putin's regime has not once used the scare of a nuclear war to frighten the West and convince it not to provide military aid to Ukraine. In the past, the scare was usually voiced over by Medvedev and all sorts of propagandists, now it's Putin's turn to announce them. And it wasn't Macron's assumption that irked Putin - it was Ukraine's success in striking airfields, fuel depots, warships and military planes deep in Russia and Russia-occupied areas.”

Head of Central Asia Due Diligence, a think tank in London

01 Mar 2024 5 3

Dmytro Lykhoviy

Inserted 1 month ago

“Our forces withdrew from the small villages of Syeverne and Stepove.... Heavy battles for Syeverne went on yesterday in the evening and night. Russia had taken significant losses in the fight. Ukrainian forces have consolidated new defensive positions west of Avdiivka.”

Rferl

Ukrainian military spokesman

27 Feb 2024 5 2

Robert Fico

Inserted 1 month ago

“I can confirm there are countries that are prepared to send their own troops to Ukraine, there are countries that say never, among which Slovakia belongs, and there are countries that say this proposal needs to be considered.”

Slovak Prime Minister

26 Feb 2024 2 3

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 month ago

“We have been fighting for this for 730 days of our lives. We will win on the best day of our lives.”

President of Ukraine

24 Feb 2024 1 2

Dimitar Bechev

Inserted 1 month ago

“Chances for any meaningful negotiations are slim to non-existent. The Russian leadership seems to be hell-bent on fighting until the bitter end. There is no indication Putin and his entourage have changed their initial goals of subjugating Ukraine. If Moscow believes that the tide is shifting in their advantage, what's the point of stopping? The only virtue of a ceasefire and negotiations is to gain the time needed to reconstitute one's forces and start pushing even harder.”

Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Europe

24 Feb 2024 4 2

Volker Türk

Inserted 1 month ago

“Russia's full-scale armed attack on Ukraine, which is about to enter its third year with no end in sight, continues to cause serious and widespread human rights violations, destroying lives and livelihoods. The invasion has exacted a horrific human cost, inflicting immense suffering on millions of civilians.”

Rferl

UN high commissioner for human rights

22 Feb 2024 3 2

Michael Kofman

Inserted 1 month ago

“Ukraine is not getting a sufficient amount of artillery ammunition to meet its minimum defensive needs, and this is not a sustainable situation moving forward.”