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#Russian forces

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Jens Stoltenberg
Jens Stoltenberg

“The Ukrainians are gradually gaining ground...They have been able to breach the defensive lines of the Russian forces, and they are moving forward. No one ever said that this was going to be easy. Hardly any time in history we have seen more mines on the battlefield than we are seeing in Ukraine today. So it was obvious that this was going to be extremely difficult. They are making progress. Not perhaps as much as we hoped for but they are gaining ground gradually. Some hundred meters per day, meaning that when the Ukrainians are gaining ground, the Russians are losing ground.”

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Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
07 Sep 2023 4 2
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Volodymyr Zelenskiy

“We must all understand very clearly - as clearly as possible - that the Russian forces on our southern and eastern lands are investing everything they can to stop our warriors. Every thousand metres we advance, every success of each of our combat brigades deserves gratitude.”

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President of Ukraine
14 Jul 2023 1 2
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Oleksandr Syrskyi
Oleksandr Syrskyi

“Ukrainian units are not just defending but also counterattacking Russian forces in the city. This gives us the opportunity for several months to contain the enemy's offensive and not increase the front in this direction, to destroy his best units and buy time.”

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Ukraine’s commander of ground forces
26 Apr 2023 (approx) 2 1
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Oleksander Musienko
Oleksander Musienko

“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.”

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Ukrainian military expert
06 Apr 2023 3 1
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Alexandre Vautravers
Alexandre Vautravers

“The beginning of the Russian invasion did not take place under a unified command, as there were five different army groups each leading autonomous operations. That will change under Surovikin's [Sergey Surovikin] leadership of the war. The reason it was not possible to have a unified command of all the Russian forces was the distance and lack of information technology to put together all of the command and control facilities and capabilities. What we are seeing now is one person and one headquarters is going to plan out and direct the operation. But it is also a signal that from now on the operation will concentrate on one specific area. It may be Luhansk, it may be Donetsk, it may be in the south. What we are seeing is a shrinking of the operation of Russia.”

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Editor-in-chief at the Swiss Military Review
08 Oct 2022 6 4
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Nikolay Mitrokhin
Nikolay Mitrokhin

“If by mid-October Ukrainian forces can break through the front lines in at least two directions and advance for at least 50km (30 miles), they will deal the Russian forces a heavy blow that will upturn the mobilisation. As a result, the inevitable loss of armoured vehicles and artillery will heavily impede the revitalisation of Russia's military might in occupied areas. But if there is no successful Ukrainian breakthrough, the Russians could restore the combat readiness of many front-line units. It doesn't mean they will be ready to attack, but they could hold the front line.”

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Research Fellow at Bremen University
22 Sep 2022 3 2
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Gabriel Elizondo
Gabriel Elizondo

“Izyum was a key military strongpoint for the Russians for many months. It took the Russians six weeks of fighting to get a hold of that city, and now it appears that the Ukrainians will have retaken it, in pretty much a 12-to-24-hour timeframe. It gives you an idea of how the tide is certainly turning. Ukrainians clearly have the momentum in this battle right now in the northeast, as they continue to push the Russian forces back.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Kiev
10 Sep 2022 4 3
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Mykhailo Podolyak
Mykhailo Podolyak

“The (Russian) forces must leave the country and after that the resumption of the peace process will be possible. Concessions would backfire because Russia would use the break in fighting to come back stronger.”

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Advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
21 May 2022 3 1
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Mark Cancian
Mark Cancian

“I don't expect this to open things up in a big way for the Russians but it will help them out - more supplies, more equipment flowing in more easily, freeing up some troops that they can use in the offensive to the north. Most of the Russian forces in Mariupol have already been sent in that direction, but now Russia will be able to send much of the remaining forces. Mariupol has an excellent port that will help Russian logistics, which have been terrible during this campaign.”

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Senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) International Security Program and former U.S. Marine Corps colonel
18 May 2022 6 1
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Avril Haines
Avril Haines

“We assess President Putin is preparing for a prolonged conflict in Ukraine during which he still intends to achieve goals beyond the Donbas. We assess that Putin's strategic goals have probably not changed, suggesting he regards the decision in late March to refocus Russian forces on the Donbas is only a temporary shift to regain the initiative after the Russian military's failure to capture Kyiv.”

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US Director of National Intelligence
10 May 2022 6 2
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Dorsa Jabbari
Dorsa Jabbari

“It's interesting that he spent the few minutes he had chosen to deliver this very important speech to talk about why Russian forces are fighting in Ukraine. A lot of people were expecting a much more rousing and longer speech from the president to get some clarity about when the Russian population could expect an end to this conflict.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Moscow
09 May 2022 3 3
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Kyrylo Budanov
Kyrylo Budanov

“In fact, it is an attempt to create North and South Korea in Ukraine. Ukraine's army would push back Russian forces. In addition, the season of a total Ukrainian guerrilla safari will soon begin. Then there will be one relevant scenario left for the Russians, how to survive.”

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Head of Ukraine's military intelligence service
27 Mar 2022 4 3
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Jonah Hull
Jonah Hull

“It has been in the air for days now that the possibility is there - that the Russian forces that have been extending their gains north of Crimea, through Kherson and onwards through the town of Mykolaiv, may well try to double back on Odesa and join up with a naval landing from elements of the Black Sea fleet that have been hovering on the horizon there for several days. That's been talked about - whether Zelenskyy is referring to specific intelligence or not it's not clear.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist
06 Mar 2022 7 2
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Dmytro Kuleba
Dmytro Kuleba

“We go there [to the talks] to listen to what Russia wants to say, we are going without any … preliminary agreement on what the outcome of these talks can be. We are going there to listen and to say what we think of this war and Russia's actions. Between now and the moment that the talks are wrapped up, [Belarusian President Alexander] Lukashenko assured President Zelenskyy that no Belarusian military force will be used against Ukraine. We can only hope that Lukashenko will stick to his word. And between now and the moment when these talks are wrapped up, we will continue to fiercely defend our country, to defeat Russian forces if they try to continue their offensive operations.”

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Foreign Minister of Ukraine
27 Feb 2022 6 3
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Konrad Muzyka
Konrad Muzyka

“It would take several days to verify the latest moves via satellite imagery. It should also be noted that new trains with equipment from Central Russia keep on arriving near the border and that Russian forces continue to move towards staging areas. The announcement stands in a direct opposition to what Russia has been doing for the past few days.”

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Director of the Poland-based Rochan consultancy
15 Feb 2022 3 2
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