Ipse by Tag - Russian army

Oleksander Musienko

Inserted 5 months ago

“Russian forces were exhausted and cannot maintain the same pace of attacks that they launched in February. It's clear now that the Russian army's ability to attack is stalled. And for all their bravado about taking over Bakhmut, it is just not true. The Russian forces are preparing to organise defensive positions. The idea is to bring the war into a positional phase, essentially a stalemate.”

Reuters

Ukrainian military expert

06 Apr 2023 3 1

Dominic Kane

Inserted 8 months ago

“The thing to remember here is the real value that the main battle tank Leopard 2 possesses is that it is a heavier and faster tank than many of the tanks the Russian army has in Ukraine. It's also the case that very many different European Union countries have certain forms of the Leopard 2 tanks. The principle here is clear: There are many of them in the EU but also in NATO European countries.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Berlin

24 Jan 2023 9 2

Emmanuel Karagiannis

Inserted 8 months ago

“The Wagner Group has its own tanks, artillery and drones, while maintaining an independent command and control system. In effect, it functions as a combined arms force. This victory is definitely credited to the Wagner Group, which is bound to affect relations with the Russian army. The battle of Bakhmut is the key to both sides' future plans in Donbas. If the Russians manage to occupy the town, they will try to regain some of the territory lost since September. If the Ukrainians defend the town successfully, they can ask for more western support for their spring counterattack in the region. At present, the Ukrainian army does not seem to have either the reserves or the equipment to push deeper into Donbas.”

Aljazeera

International security expert from King’s College London

19 Jan 2023 4 4

Andriy Cherniak

Inserted 8 months ago

“According to Ukrainian military intelligence estimates, in the next four-five months the Russian army may lose up to 70,000 people. And the occupying country's (Russia's) leadership is ready for such losses. Russian leaders understand they will lose but they do not plan to end the war.”

Aljazeera

Official from the Ukrainian defence ministry’s intelligence section

04 Jan 2023 3 3

Sergey Lavrov

Inserted 9 months ago

“Our proposals for the demilitarisation and denazification of the territories controlled by the regime, the elimination of threats to Russia's security emanating from there, including our new lands, are well known to the enemy. The point is simple: Fulfil them for your own good. Otherwise, the issue will be decided by the Russian army.”

Aljazeera

Russian Foreign Minister

26 Dec 2022 2 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 9 months ago

“Bakhmut, Soledar, Maryinka, Kreminna. For a long time, there is no living place left on the land of these areas that have not been damaged by shells and fire. The occupiers actually destroyed Bakhmut, another Donbas city that the Russian army turned into burned ruins.”

Aljazeera

President of Ukraine

10 Dec 2022 6 3

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 11 months ago

“The introduction of troops into a direct confrontation with the Russian army is a very dangerous step that could lead to a global catastrophe. I hope that those who speak of this have enough sense not to take such steps.”

Aljazeera

President of Russia

14 Oct 2022 2 2

Josep Borrell

Inserted 11 months ago

“Putin is saying he is not bluffing. Well, he cannot afford bluffing, and it has to be clear that the people supporting Ukraine and the European Union and the Member States, and the United States and NATO are not bluffing either. Any nuclear attack against Ukraine will create an answer, not a nuclear answer but such a powerful answer from the military side that the Russian Army will be annihilated.”

Aljazeera

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

13 Oct 2022 6 3

Nikolay Mitrokhin

Inserted 1 year ago

“Within four days, Ukraine nullified four months of success of the Russian army that cost them a huge amount of victims. The Russian Defence Ministry made a decision - that apparently came from the very top - to fully withdraw forces from Kharkiv and to use the available resources to hold on to the positions in Donetsk, and perhaps, the border of Luhansk. The aftertaste is that all of this is but a remake of Russia's retreat from northern Ukraine in April.”

Aljazeera

Research Fellow at Bremen University

12 Sep 2022 7 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 year ago

“The Russian army these days is demonstrating its best ability - to show its back.”

Aljazeera

President of Ukraine

10 Sep 2022 2 2

Viktor Orbán

Inserted 1 year ago

“The Western strategy on Ukraine has been built on four pillars - that Ukraine can win a war against Russia with NATO weapons, that sanctions would weaken Russia and destabilise its leadership, that sanctions would hurt Russia more than Europe, and that the world would line up in support of Europe. This strategy has failed as governments in Europe are collapsing like dominoes, energy prices have surged and a new strategy was needed now. We are sitting in a car that has a puncture in all four tyres: it is absolutely clear that the war cannot be won in this way. Ukraine will never win the war this way quite simply because the Russian army has assymetrical dominance.”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of Hungary

23 Jul 2022 9 1

Serhiy Haidai

Inserted 1 year ago

“The Russians have paid a high price, but the Luhansk region is not fully captured by the Russian army. Some settlements have been overrun by each side several times already.”

Aljazeera

Governor of Luhansk region

06 Jul 2022 3 1

Serhiy Haidai

Inserted 1 year ago

“Russians continue to storm the city, having a significant advantage in artillery they have somewhat pushed back the Ukrainian soldiers. The Russians are destroying quarter after quarter. The Russian army had been partially successful at night and controlled 70% of the city. If after new shelling the bridge collapses, the city will truly be cut off. There will be no way of leaving Sievierodonetsk in a vehicle.”

Theguardian

Governor of Luhansk region

13 Jun 2022 3 2

Serhiy Haidai

Inserted 1 year ago

“Right now our soldiers have pushed them back. They [the Russians] are suffering huge casualties. The Russian army, as we understand, is throwing all its efforts, all its reserves in that direction. As soon as we get a big amount of Western long-range weapons, we will push their artillery back … and then Russian infantry will run.”

Aljazeera

Governor of Luhansk region

04 Jun 2022 7 3

Serhiy Gaidai

Inserted 1 year ago

“I regret to say that the Russian army succeeded in making its way deep into the city... they control most of the city. A fifth of the city is now a contested grey zone. Ukrainian fighters are holding out in one area and are still able to clear Russians out of some streets. They had captured six Russian prisoners the previous day. So I would tell sceptics not to write off Sievierodonetsk. It's too early to do that. The city is holding on.”

Reuters

Luhansk Governor

02 Jun 2022 5 1

Oleksiy Arestovych

Inserted 1 year ago

“According to unverified data, we lost the town of Lyman. The attack had been well organised. This shows, in principle, the increased level of operational management and tactical skills of the Russian army.”

Reuters

Adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy

26 May 2022 2 1

Alexey Kovalyov

Inserted 1 year ago

“Although it's increasingly clumsy and self-contradictory, it's terrifyingly effective [Russian state media influence on public opinion]. There are quite a few heartbreaking accounts of people living in Ukraine under the Russian bombs, they're calling their family members in Russia and telling them they're being bombed by the Russian army, and their own family members refuse to believe them. They say it couldn't be true, because, 'We see on television, the Russian army's only striking military targets. So you must be lying, or you're delusional.' It's happening in millions of families, including mine.”

Aljazeera

Editor at the independent news website Meduza

07 Apr 2022 4 3

Cristian Nitoiu

Inserted 1 year ago

“The presence of mercenaries can only muddy the military situation, as they are less likely to abide by the rules of conventional military structures. Both the Ukrainian and the Russian armies would have difficulty controlling the movement and actions of mercenary groups. The widespread presence of mercenaries also shows that both parties are preparing for a long, drawn-out military conflict, where urban and guerrilla tactics will play a key role. Ukraine is the loser here, as mercenaries operate with impunity and may engage in wide-scale destruction with little afterthought. Mercenaries pose a real danger of refusing to demobilise and blackmailing the Ukrainian government after the conflict between Kyiv and Moscow ends.”

Aljazeera

Lecturer in Diplomacy and International Governance at Loughborough University London

23 Mar 2022 6 2

Hoda Abdel-Hamid

Inserted 1 year ago

“Odesa is under threat from several fronts. The Russian army is trying to advance towards the city from the south, while Russian warships are trying to approach the coast but that won't be so easy because this city is heavily fortified.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Odesa

16 Mar 2022 3 2

Dmytro Kuleba

Inserted 1 year ago

“The only electrical grid supplying the Chornobyl NPP [Nuclear Power Plant] and all its nuclear facilities occupied by Russian army is damaged. CNPP lost all electric supply. I call on the international community to urgently demand Russia to cease fire and allow repair units to restore power supply. Reserve diesel generators have a 48-hour capacity to power the Chornobyl NPP. After that, cooling systems of the storage facility for spent nuclear fuel will stop, making radiation leaks imminent. Putin's barbaric war puts entire Europe in danger. He must stop it immediately!”

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Foreign Minister of Ukraine

09 Mar 2022 8 1

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“According to Ukrainian military intelligence estimates, in the next four-five months the Russian army may lose up to 70,000 people. And the occupying country's (Russia's) leadership is ready for such losses. Russian leaders understand they will lose but they do not plan to end the war.”

“Bakhmut, Soledar, Maryinka, Kreminna. For a long time, there is no living place left on the land of these areas that have not been damaged by shells and fire. The occupiers actually destroyed Bakhmut, another Donbas city that the Russian army turned into burned ruins.”

“The introduction of troops into a direct confrontation with the Russian army is a very dangerous step that could lead to a global catastrophe. I hope that those who speak of this have enough sense not to take such steps.”

“The Russian army these days is demonstrating its best ability - to show its back.”

“The Russians have paid a high price, but the Luhansk region is not fully captured by the Russian army. Some settlements have been overrun by each side several times already.”

“According to unverified data, we lost the town of Lyman. The attack had been well organised. This shows, in principle, the increased level of operational management and tactical skills of the Russian army.”

“Odesa is under threat from several fronts. The Russian army is trying to advance towards the city from the south, while Russian warships are trying to approach the coast but that won't be so easy because this city is heavily fortified.”

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