Ipse by Tag - Kursk region

Volodymyr Fesenko

Inserted 5 days ago

“It is important for Ukraine to have a bridgehead in the Kursk region as an instrument of pressure in the negotiations and as an opportunity to negotiate a territorial exchange. Ukraine doesn't need any territory in Russia. Ukraine can negotiate to withdraw from the Kursk region, but in exchange, for example, for the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kharkiv region. Such an option is possible.”

Rferl

Kyiv-based analyst

07 Jan 2025 7 3

Yan Matveyev

Inserted 6 days ago

“It's difficult to assume that Ukrainian forces have enough reserves to occupy vast territories in the Kursk region, including Kursk itself. They might try and expand their foothold ahead of negotiations. Besides, an attack like that makes the defensive side, Russia in this case, accumulate additional forces, thus weakening possible attacks in other parts of the front.”

Rferl

Russian military analyst

06 Jan 2025 5 5

Oleksandr Syrskyi

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“For the third day, the enemy has been conducting intensive offensive operations on the territory of the Kursk region, actively using units of the North Korean Army.”

Rferl

Ukraine’s commander of ground forces

17 Dec 2024 5 3

Aaron David Miller

Inserted 1 month ago

“The timing of the decision by the government of US President Joe Biden to pivot on its policy in the wake of the US election may be twofold. It may strengthen Ukraine before future talks while upping the political stakes for US President-elect Donald Trump within his own party. Clearly, if the ATACMS, which I suspect will have limited influence in the overall trajectory of the conflict, help in holding off Russian advances in the Kursk region, it would obviously prove to be beneficial. There are still a substantial number of Republicans … who believe that defending Ukraine is within the broadest conception of American national interests. Therefore Trump may choose not to undo Biden's ATACMS decision.”

Aje

Senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

20 Nov 2024 9 4

Han-bum Cho

Inserted 1 month ago

“U.S. officials have repeatedly stated that if North Korean troops join the fight, they will become legitimate targets. The primary targets of the ATACMS missiles are likely to be North Korean infantry in Russia's Kursk region, who are poorly armed. Even without the Trump factor, the war in Ukraine seems to have shifted to a phase of regional skirmishes focused on limited territorial gains, with a major expansion of the conflict looking unlikely. As the situation seems to be moving into a so-called 'control mode' with Trump's return, South Korea's rationale in providing military aid to Ukraine in response to North Korean troops could lack clarity.”

Koreatimes

Senior researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification

20 Nov 2024 11 5

Ben Hodges

Inserted 1 month ago

“Such a move would send a message to the Kremlin that the [the United States] is not just folding up our tents and waiting for Trump. It would be a good thing because this policy would be in effect as the Trump administration takes over and, frankly, it's a good thing for Donald Trump. The priority for Ukraine in the use of the weapons will likely be in Russia's Kursk region, using them to strike command-and-control sites, arms depots, and artillery batteries.”

Rferl

Retired U.S. General and former Commander of NATO forces in Europe

17 Nov 2024 5 6

Andriy Yermak

Inserted 2 months ago

“North Korean military will die in Kursk region, because they, like the Russian army, pose a threat to Ukraine. They are present there and, of course, they will die.”

Rferl

Ukraine's presidential chief of staff

04 Nov 2024 5 3

Patrick Ryder

Inserted 2 months ago

“Indications (are) that there's already a small number (of North Korean troops) that are actually in the Kursk Oblast, with a couple thousand more that are either almost there or due to arrive imminently. The rest at this time, of course, (are) training out in the east, but (we) fully expect that they'll move in that direction at some point. We are concerned that they do intend to employ these forces in combat against Ukrainians or at least support combat operations against the Ukrainians in the Kursk region. As of right now, it remains to be seen exactly how the Russians and the North Koreans will employ these forces.”

En

Pentagon spokesperson - Military officer and United States Air Force brigadier general

29 Oct 2024 9 5

Vasily Nebenzya

Inserted 2 months ago

“Undoubtedly, many states, having assimilated our arguments and explanations, realize that the Kursk adventure has only alienated the prospects for a peaceful settlement. Moreover, by invading the territory of Russia recognized by all the states of the world, the Ukrainian armed forces have demonstrated to the world majority their terrorist and aggressive nature, about which we have been warning for years.”

Tass

Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations

21 Oct 2024 5 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 2 months ago

“As for the Kursk operation, there were attempts by Russia to push back our positions, but we are holding the defined lines.”

Rferl

President of Ukraine

12 Oct 2024 3 2

Apti Alaudinov

Inserted 3 months ago

“I think it will take a couple of months [to drive the enemy out of the Kursk region]. I said earlier that it would take us two to three months, and now I believe that, in any case, we'll need a couple more months. Well, we should make it clear to ourselves that the enemy forces have lost most of the resources they brought here. They have realised they cannot move forward no matter what they do.”

Aje

Russian Major General - Commander of the Chechen Akhmat special forces unit

25 Sep 2024 3 3

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 4 months ago

“The Russians have launched a counter-offensive. This is going in accordance with the Ukrainian plan.”

Pravda

President of Ukraine

12 Sep 2024 3 1

Apti Alaudinov

Inserted 4 months ago

“The campaign has successfully pushed Ukrainian troops out of about 10 settlements they had captured in the western region [of Kursk]. The situation is good for us.”

Aljazeera

Russian Major General - Commander of the Chechen Akhmat special forces unit

11 Sep 2024 5 2

Nico Lange

Inserted 4 months ago

“The best thing the Russian conscripts can do is to turn themselves in to the Ukrainians immediately. They will not survive this.”

Reuters

Defence expert at Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

29 Aug 2024 5 2

Pavel Luzin

Inserted 4 months ago

“Some of those captured were drafted in May or June and may have had only the minimum 45 days of training.”

Reuters

Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

29 Aug 2024 3 2

David Cohen

Inserted 4 months ago

“We can be certain that Putin will mount a counteroffensive to try to reclaim that territory. I think our expectation is that that will be a difficult fight for the Russians. Putin is not only going to have to face the fact that there is a front line now within Russian territory that he's going to have to deal with, he has to deal with reverberations back in his own society that they have lost a piece of Russian territory. Ukraine's success in Kursk has the potential to change the dynamic of the conflict a little bit going forward.”

Reuters

Deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency

28 Aug 2024 8 2

Ben Hodges

Inserted 4 months ago

“This operations by the Ukrainians has caught everybody by surprise including all of us, not only the fact that it happened and where it happened, but also how successful it has been. You've got a mix of border guards, national guard, FSB and regular army and local authorities, and it's not clear who's responsible. And of course, the reaction has been unsurprisingly somewhat chaotic. We've been underestimating Ukraine from the very beginning.”

Aljazeera

Retired U.S. General and former Commander of NATO forces in Europe

22 Aug 2024 3 1

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 4 months ago

“It is now our primary task in defensive operations overall: to destroy as much Russian war potential as possible and conduct maximum counteroffensive actions. This includes creating a buffer zone on the aggressor's territory.”

Aljazeera

President of Ukraine

18 Aug 2024 4 1

Phillips O’Brien

Inserted 4 months ago

“The Russian military is ponderous, and needs heavy logistical supply to undertake operations. Without bridges, it's hard to see the Russians supplying the needed forces to keep that area effectively militarized.”

Rferl

Professor of Strategic Studies at St Andrews University

18 Aug 2024 6 3

Thibault Fouillet

Inserted 4 months ago

“Ukraine would need to bring in air defense and artillery weapons, organize logistical lines and replace soldiers at the new front. It's not easy to open a new front and hold it.”

Nytimes

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

17 Aug 2024 4 2

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“For the third day, the enemy has been conducting intensive offensive operations on the territory of the Kursk region, actively using units of the North Korean Army.”

“North Korean military will die in Kursk region, because they, like the Russian army, pose a threat to Ukraine. They are present there and, of course, they will die.”

“As for the Kursk operation, there were attempts by Russia to push back our positions, but we are holding the defined lines.”

“The Russians have launched a counter-offensive. This is going in accordance with the Ukrainian plan.”

“The campaign has successfully pushed Ukrainian troops out of about 10 settlements they had captured in the western region [of Kursk]. The situation is good for us.”

“The best thing the Russian conscripts can do is to turn themselves in to the Ukrainians immediately. They will not survive this.”

“Some of those captured were drafted in May or June and may have had only the minimum 45 days of training.”

“It is now our primary task in defensive operations overall: to destroy as much Russian war potential as possible and conduct maximum counteroffensive actions. This includes creating a buffer zone on the aggressor's territory.”

“The Russian military is ponderous, and needs heavy logistical supply to undertake operations. Without bridges, it's hard to see the Russians supplying the needed forces to keep that area effectively militarized.”

“Ukraine would need to bring in air defense and artillery weapons, organize logistical lines and replace soldiers at the new front. It's not easy to open a new front and hold it.”

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