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Jens Stoltenberg

Inserted 2 years ago

“According to our intelligence, Russian units are not withdrawing but repositioning. Russia is trying to regroup, resupply and reinforce its offensive in the Donbas region. At the same time, Russia maintains pressure on Kyiv and other cities. So we can expect additional offensive actions, bringing even more suffering.”

Reuters

Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

31 Mar 2022 4 2

Loren Thompson

Inserted 2 years ago

“Moscow may be looking for a way out of its Ukraine quagmire. Focusing its military goals on control of the Donbas could be a way of scaling back without admitting defeat.”

Aljazeera

Defence analyst at the Lexington Institute, a Washington think-tank

26 Mar 2022 3 3

Stephen Biddle

Inserted 2 years ago

“It's plausible that they're basically trying to ratchet their perceived war aims down to something they've already accomplished [the existing hold on parts of the Donbas]. It's also possible the Russians decided they began the war with the wrong approach, with combat forces spread too thinly across too many parts of the country. In that case, they might now try to regroup with a central focus on the Donbas, and make that the new starting point for an offensive they could later broaden.”

Aljazeera

Professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, who has studied US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere

26 Mar 2022 5 4

Omar Ashour

Inserted 2 years ago

“I think it's another way to say regime change in Kyiv has failed. The attempt to encircle and storm Kyiv has failed, and the effort is now focused on the east. Russia originally had a three-pronged military strategy: to encircle and then seize the capital, to capture Ukraine's south, and take the key city of Mariupol. I'm not sure how successful that will be.”

Aljazeera

Chair of critical conflict studies at the Doha Institute

26 Mar 2022 5 3

Sergei Rudskoi

Inserted 2 years ago

“The main objectives of the first stage of the operation have generally been accomplished. The combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been considerably reduced, which … makes it possible to focus our core efforts on achieving the main goal, the liberation of Donbas.”

Aljazeera

Head of the Russian General Staff's Main Operational Directorate

25 Mar 2022 3 4

Ibrahim Kalin

Inserted 2 years ago

“President Putin thinks the positions on the Donbas and Crimea are not close enough to meet President Zelenskyy. What we need is a strategic-level meeting between the two leaders. There seems to be growing consensus … We are hoping there will be more convergence on these issues, and this meeting will take place sooner than later, because we all want this war to come to an end.”

Aljazeera

Turkish Presidential Spokesman

19 Mar 2022 7 2

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 2 years ago

“As you see, there are people who want to come on a voluntary basis, especially not for money, and help the people who live in the Donbas - well, you have to meet them halfway and help them move into the combat zone.”

Aljazeera

President of Russia

11 Mar 2022 2 3

Alexander Hinton

Inserted 2 years ago

“It is well-documented that since 2014, both sides have committed human rights violation in Donbas and innocent people have been killed and abused. But there is no credible evidence that genocide is taking place. None. Russia has made vague references to mass graves and civilian attacks. If it had proof, you can be sure Russia would have provided it long ago. Russia should have done so [formally bring its genocide claims before the UN] and pressed for action at the UN if it had credible concerns. It claims that Ukrainians are attacking ethnic Russians and Russian speakers who Russia claims to be obliged to protect. That sounds reasonable in the abstract, but, again, Russia has not provided any credible proof to support its claim … It didn't do so because Russia's goal isn't to save lives but to conquer Ukraine. Lavrov's accusation is just another attempt to mask an invasion.”

Aljazeera

Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University

09 Mar 2022 10 4

Nataliya Sekretareva

Inserted 2 years ago

“Some casualties are lawful under international humanitarian law provided they do not cause excessive incidental loss of civilian life. Other attacks, depending on the context, could constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide. What distinguishes the crime of genocide is the context: The attacks on civilians should be committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such. So, answering your question, only genocide is committed with the intent to erase a group. To claim that Ukraine had been committing genocide in Donbas, Russia would have to prove that the Ukrainian government had been pursuing a deliberate policy of killing or otherwise targeting some national, ethnic, racial or religious group with the intent to destroy this group. The mere fact that the deaths occurred during an armed confrontation cannot constitute genocide, especially considering that Ukraine did not even control the territory in question since 2015. How would the state perpetrate a genocide on the territories it doesn't even have access to?”

Aljazeera

Russian human rights lawyer

09 Mar 2022 5 4

Aleksey Kusch

Inserted 2 years ago

“Very simple - to lower the price tag of maintaining the occupied territories. To achieve that, Russia may want to remove the middlemen who pocketed the lion's share of profits from the export of coal and steel and the delivery of humanitarian aid that was immediately resold on the black market. They kept up to 70 percent of the profits.”

Aljazeera

Kyiv-based analyst

22 Feb 2022 3 2

Valery Zaluzhny

Inserted 2 years ago

“I am addressing the residents of the temporarily occupied territories: don't believe the falsehoods circulated by the occupation authorities! You're being used for escalating the situation [...] The allegation that sabotage groups from the [Ukrainian] Joint Forces planned to blow up chlorine at sewerage facilities in Horlivka are absolutely untrue. The statements [...] alleging that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are planning an offensive and the liberation of the temporarily occupied territories by force are untrue. The information presented by me has also been confirmed by the OSCE. I am reiterating that the state's military-political leadership is not planning and is not conducting offensive operations in eastern Ukraine. An offensive operation in Donbas would definitely cause numerous civilian casualties, and therefore, such scenarios are not even under consideration.”

Interfax

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

18 Feb 2022 8 3

Oleg Danilov

Inserted 2 years ago

“I can tell you there are no orders to liberate our territory by force.”

Rt

Secretary of Ukraine's Security and Defence Council

18 Feb 2022 3 3

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 2 years ago

“All that Kyiv needs to do is sit at the negotiating table with representatives of the Donbas and agree on political, military and economic measures to end the conflict. Unfortunately, right now we see a deterioration of the situation in the Donbas.”

Themoscowtimes

President of Russia

18 Feb 2022 2 3

Oleg Danilov

Inserted 2 years ago

“If we are talking about a full-scale operation against our state, then we don't see that. The purpose [of the provocations in East Ukraine] is to make us respond powerfully in order to accuse us of something we are not going to do.”

Rt

Secretary of Ukraine's Security and Defence Council

17 Feb 2022 6 3

Dmytro Kuleba

Inserted 2 years ago

“Ukrainian Stanytsia Luhanska village was shelled with heavy weapons from the occupied territory of the Donbas. Civilian infrastructure damaged. We call on all partners to swiftly condemn this severe violation of Minsk agreements by Russia amid an already tense security situation.”

Themoscowtimes

Foreign Minister of Ukraine

17 Feb 2022 5 3

Svetlana Gannushkina

Inserted 2 years ago

“This war, if it is unleashed, will become an indelible stain on the history of Russia. It will not be forgotten and not forgiven for centuries. Our authorities say that Russians and Ukrainians are one people. In fact, almost all of us have relatives and friends in Ukraine. But Russia and Ukraine must respect each other's sovereignty. Russia has already violated this principle by annexing Crimea and intervening in the Donbas. We, the citizens of Russia, are responsible for this. We must finally learn at least one commandment and stop killing our own kind.”

Aljazeera

Mathematician and leading member of Russia’s oldest human rights NGO Memorial

03 Feb 2022 4 4

US Embassy in Ukraine

Inserted 2 years ago

“Russia's proxy authorities in occupied Donbas have committed human rights abuses, illegally imprisoned Ukrainian citizens, suppressed free speech and forced Ukrainians to take Russian passports. The world knows this, and Russia's lies about Donbas are another obvious attempt to shift blame for the suffering Russia has caused.”

Rferl

Tweet of the US Embassy in Kyiv

13 Dec 2021 8 4

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 2 years ago

“I do not rule out a referendum on Donbas in general. It might be about Donbas, it might be about Crimea, it might be about ending the war in general. So it may be that someone, this or that country can offer us certain conditions.”

Aljazeera

President of Ukraine

11 Dec 2021 3 3

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 2 years ago

“It must be taken into consideration that the Western partners are aggravating the situation [in the Donbas] by supplying Kyiv with modern lethal weapons and holding provocative military maneuvers in the Black Sea and other regions close to our borders.”

Rferl

President of Russia

18 Nov 2021 4 3

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“Moscow may be looking for a way out of its Ukraine quagmire. Focusing its military goals on control of the Donbas could be a way of scaling back without admitting defeat.”

“The main objectives of the first stage of the operation have generally been accomplished. The combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been considerably reduced, which … makes it possible to focus our core efforts on achieving the main goal, the liberation of Donbas.”

“As you see, there are people who want to come on a voluntary basis, especially not for money, and help the people who live in the Donbas - well, you have to meet them halfway and help them move into the combat zone.”

“I can tell you there are no orders to liberate our territory by force.”

“All that Kyiv needs to do is sit at the negotiating table with representatives of the Donbas and agree on political, military and economic measures to end the conflict. Unfortunately, right now we see a deterioration of the situation in the Donbas.”

“If we are talking about a full-scale operation against our state, then we don't see that. The purpose [of the provocations in East Ukraine] is to make us respond powerfully in order to accuse us of something we are not going to do.”

“Ukrainian Stanytsia Luhanska village was shelled with heavy weapons from the occupied territory of the Donbas. Civilian infrastructure damaged. We call on all partners to swiftly condemn this severe violation of Minsk agreements by Russia amid an already tense security situation.”

“I do not rule out a referendum on Donbas in general. It might be about Donbas, it might be about Crimea, it might be about ending the war in general. So it may be that someone, this or that country can offer us certain conditions.”

“It must be taken into consideration that the Western partners are aggravating the situation [in the Donbas] by supplying Kyiv with modern lethal weapons and holding provocative military maneuvers in the Black Sea and other regions close to our borders.”

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