Ipse by Tag - Russians

Keith Kellog

Inserted 3 days ago

“People need to understand that he's [Donald Trump] not trying to give something to Putin or to the Russians. He's actually trying to save Ukraine and to save their sovereignty. And he's going to make sure that it's equitable and that it's fair. Biden's biggest mistake was refusing to talk to Vladimir Putin after 2022, while Trump is determined to do so. Trump will be able to propose an acceptable solution to Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the near term. I would like to set a goal on a personal and professional level. I would say let's set it at a hundred days.”

Pravda

Trump-nominated Ukraine-Russia envoy

08 Jan 2025 10 3

William Hill

Inserted 1 week ago

“The Russians are clearly in the game not just to pressure Ukraine, and Europe, and Moldova. But they've hung Transdniester out to dry, and this is really surprising everyone. What the Russians have done to their 30-year proxy on the left bank of the Dniester River, it's remarkable. People are going to remember this. It's freezing there.”

Rferl

Former U.S. ambassador who has spent years working in Moldova

04 Jan 2025 5 4

Liam Collins

Inserted 1 week ago

“Russian forces might try to skirt Pokrovsk in a rush to seize more territory before any peace talks: Pokrovsk itself is around 18 kilometers from the administrative border between the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions. What's more likely is they want to avoid brutal urban warfare; for example, what happened in the monthslong fight to seize the city of Bakhmut. The Russians, like just about any army, would prefer to bypass a city, cut off the supply lines to fighters inside and wait them out and force their eventual surrender without as much of a fight.”

Rferl

Retired U.S. Army Special Forces colonel

03 Jan 2025 7 3

Olga Oliker

Inserted 1 week ago

“The smart money right now is that [Trump] can probably get the Russians and the Ukrainians to talk to both him and each other.”

Rferl

Europe and Central Asia program director at Crisis Group

31 Dec 2024 5 4

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“I held a meeting of the Staff today, with a separate report from Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi regarding the front. The Donetsk areas are the most intense, as well as Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Kharkiv oblasts. [We discussed] details of Kursk Oblast's developments - the North Korean military is involved in the fighting. They have many losses. A great deal. And we can see that the Russian military and the North Korean enforcers have no interest in the survival of these Koreans at all. Everything is arranged in a way that makes it impossible for us to capture the Koreans as prisoners - their own people are executing them, there are such cases. And the Russians send them into assaults with minimal protection. Today we received reports on several soldiers from North Korea, our warriors managed to capture them. But they were seriously wounded and could not be resuscitated. This is one of the manifestations of the madness dictatorships are capable of. The Korean nation should not lose its people in the battles in Europe. And this can be influenced, particularly by Korea's neighbors, especially China. If China is sincere in its statements that the war should not escalate, it must exert appropriate pressure on Pyongyang.”

Pravda

President of Ukraine

27 Dec 2024 15 10

George Barros

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Russia may not have the resources for the time being to turn a potential tactical victory in Pokrovsk into an operational advance deeper into Ukraine. Russia lost more than 500 tanks and 1,000 fighting vehicles - enough hardware to equip five mechanized divisions - as well as tens of thousands of troops during the yearlong, 45-kilometer march westward to the outskirts of Pokrovsk. What we're seeing here is the end of a very, very long Russian marathon where the Russians have spent an eye-watering amount of resources to advance over a very objectively small amount of territory. If the Russians do seize Pokrovsk, the current campaign will likely culminate due to force and resource constraints. Russian forces have been unable to capture the strategic hilltop town of Chasiv Yar following their victory in nearby Bakhmut, one of the deadliest battles of the war, in part due to exhaustion. Russia's extraordinary losses on the way to Pokrovsk could open up an opportunity for Ukraine. If the Ukrainians are properly resourced...and they can get more men to the front that are well-equipped - this would actually be the ideal time to counterattack into a tired and exhausted adversary and inflict some reverses on the Russians.”

Rferl

Military analyst at the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War

21 Dec 2024 8 5

Ralph Goff

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Unlike Ukraine, Russia can fire long-range missiles that can hit anywhere, and were likely using their operatives for intelligence gathering and weapons targeting, rather than assassinations. For the Ukrainians, carrying out assassinations, is a strategy of necessity because it's all they got. The Ukrainians see an opportunity here. They're trying to turn the heat up on the Russian elites to force Putin to make a deal. I think it's a flawed strategy. If they're not careful they'll create the opposite effect. They anger the Russians so much that they say we're not interested in negotiating.”

Nytimes

Former senior C.I.A. official

18 Dec 2024 9 3

Oleksandr Syrsky

Inserted 1 month ago

“Unconventional decisions must be made to enhance the resilience of our defense and ensure more effective destruction of the occupiers. The battles are exceptionally fierce. The Russians are throwing all available forces forward, attempting to break through our defenses.”

Rferl

Commander of Ukraine’s ground forces

12 Dec 2024 3 5

Steven A. Cook

Inserted 1 month ago

“Russia is, of course, fully engaged in its fight in Ukraine, but it does have forces in Syria including warplanes and attack helicopters, military police, and soldiers that are spread across twenty bases. Much of the Russian military support for Assad came in the form of indiscriminate bombing of rebel areas from the air, while Hezbollah supported the regime on the ground. It is possible-indeed likely-that Russia will use the Hmeimim air base in northwestern Syria to do much of the same. Air power alone will not likely be sufficient to beat back the rebels. With government forces unable or unwilling to fight the insurgency and Hezbollah unable to muster the same forces it once did, the Russians find themselves in a difficult situation in Syria. There is no question that Moscow will want to defend its position in Syria, but it is unclear yet whether that includes defending Assad.”

Cfr

Senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations and the author of 'The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present and Future in the Middle East'

05 Dec 2024 10 3

Dareen Khalifa

Inserted 1 month ago

“It's not only that the Russians are distracted and bogged down in Ukraine, but also the Iranians are distracted and bogged down elsewhere. Hezbollah's distracted and bogged down elsewhere, and the regime is absolutely cornered. But the surprise element comes in with how quickly the regime crumbled.”

Apnews

Senior adviser with the International Crisis Group and an expert on Syrian groups

29 Nov 2024 4 2

Josep Borrell

Inserted 1 month ago

“We've reached the breaking point. Now it's the moment when member states have to decide: we go and we support. The Russians are pushing a lot. The Russians are not waiting for negotiations. Russia continues pushing slowly but continuously. The situation on the frontline is not good (but) the Ukrainians resist. The Russian superiority continues. They have been provided by North Korea much more than we have been able to provide to the Ukrainians. I have to recognise: is Russia politically isolated? Certainly not. How many people went to Kazan? I can't frankly say that Russia is becoming isolated in the international community.”

Euronews

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

29 Nov 2024 5 4

Valeriy Zaluzhnyi

Inserted 1 month ago

“The advancing country loses the ability to perform operational tasks. What are these tasks? This is an advance to a depth of 150-200 kilometres, as set out by Soviet standards. When robots began to appear on the battlefield en masse, they made it impossible for soldiers to move. The inability to fight the robots led to a stupor. We couldn't move against the Russians, and the Russians, accordingly, couldn't move, either. This situation is still the same because we don't see the Russians being able to perform such tasks as, for example, covering 150-200 kilometres in a week. Per my theory, the ability to push through will be restored when this technical and evolutionary process is completed and technological materials are stockpiled. I estimate that this could happen sometime after 2027. But it is not yet a fact that it will be 2027, given the economic and demographic situation, and that someone will claim to wage wars of such a scale as overcoming the enemy's territory.”

Pravda

Ukraine's Ambassador to the UK and former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

23 Nov 2024 4 2

Rob Magowan

Inserted 1 month ago

“If the British Army was asked to fight tonight, it would fight tonight. I don't think anybody in this room should be under any illusion that if the Russians invaded Eastern Europe tonight, then we would meet them in that fight.”

Politico

Deputy chief of the British defense staff

21 Nov 2024 4 2

Dmitry Peskov

Inserted 1 month ago

“When it all started, it started against the Kiev regime. And now it's continuing as a war between Russia and NATO. That's why it took a little bit longer. And it will take a little bit longer. I don't think it's possible to answer the question, when can it end, but the only thing I can tell you, it will come to an end as soon as we reach our goals. It was a special presidential decree by Zelensky forbidding any president of Ukraine any negotiations with the Russians. That's why we continue our military operation because a possibility of peaceful negotiations is now being denied both by Kiev and their rulers in Washington.”

Tass

Kremlin spokesman

Read the Background

19 Nov 2024 5 4

James Stavridis

Inserted 2 months ago

“If Trump can end the Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours, I'll be the first one voting for his Nobel Peace Prize. What I hope he does, and I think he will, is put pressure on both sides to get to the negotiating table, and it comes out kind of like the end of the Korean War, which is to say, Putin, unfortunately, but in a real world, will end up with about 20 percent of Ukraine, the chunk that he currently holds, but the rest of Ukraine, the 80 percent, all those resources, vast majority of the population, they stay democratic, free. Ukraine will also get a path to NATO, probably three to five years, realistically. It's not the worst outcome in the world. Keep in mind that a negotiated settlement is not something the U.S. can impose-but for the Ukrainians and Russians to agree upon. Negotiating a ceasefire and eventual settlement will take months. Ukraine's entry into NATO could be accomplished over a couple years.”

Newsweek

Former North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commander

09 Nov 2024 8 4

Rikard Jozwiak

Inserted 2 months ago

“Most likely, more EU money will continue to trickle down to Chisinau, but can Brussels really compete with Russia, especially with allegations that the Kremlin is buying votes? As one EU official said, speaking on background as they weren't authorized to speak on the record: 'We, as Europeans, try to buy Moldovan hearts with words, but Russians buy Moldovan minds with money.' The EU's inability to effectively promote the advantages of closer ties with Brussels is partly to blame for this. Some observers of the process believe this is due to EU officials rarely venturing beyond Chisinau. Others point to the need for EU countries to have a greater presence in the country, with more diplomats and officials, and to help bolster regional and local governments around Moldova, which are both understaffed and underfunded.”

Rferl

Europe editor for RFE/RL in Prague, focusing on coverage of the European Union and NATO

04 Nov 2024 7 3

Ivan Grek

Inserted 2 months ago

“The war payments are especially attractive to impoverished, middle-aged men who see them as their last chance to escape a lifetime of debt. Beyond that, people getting the money are eating in restaurants, and buying cars, electronics, clothes and property. Government statistics from early 2024 show a 74 percent growth in ordinary Russians across the country purchasing cars compared with the same time period last year, while those paying off consumer debts jumped to 21 percent, up from about 9 percent before the war.”

Nytimes

Director of the Russian Program at George Washington University

02 Nov 2024 5 4

Frederick Kagan

Inserted 2 months ago

“Everyone is feeling bad across the board. It has been a very long, hard year and the Russians are still grinding forward. But Russia is trying to suggest its victory is as inevitable as it was in World War II. The Russians would like you to believe this is 1944 on the eastern front. It isn't.”

Nytimes

Scholar with the American Enterprise Institute who has advised the U.S. military

01 Nov 2024 2 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

Benjamin Young

Inserted 2 months ago

“Russia owes a lot to Pyongyang and has much to give in exchange for military aid. The North Koreans can now use the Russian angle to gain high-level missile and space technology and expertise. More specifically, the North Koreans want to develop multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) payloads for their missiles. The Russians can help with that. For North Korea, the ability to gain actual battlefield experience is huge and could potentially help Pyongyang down the road in case a conflict ever breaks out on the Korean Peninsula. North Korean military personnel also have a lot to offer Russia on the battlefield. I wouldn't be surprised if North Korean pilots start operating Russian fighter jets. I also think they could help on the battlefield with technical missile expertise. Nonspecialized troops could help repel the continuing Ukrainian offensive in Kursk. Since that is technically Russian territory, the Kremlin can assert that the North Koreans are assisting with 'counterterrorism' operations and remain within the gray zone of international law. Communication and lack of battlefield testing among the North Korean soldiers' biggest shortfalls. Most of the North Koreans likely do not speak Russian and they do not have actual combat experience yet. The North Koreans will not be used to the lack of discipline and regimentation amongst Russian conscripts.”

Rferl

North Korea expert with the Rand Corporation think tank

29 Oct 2024 13 7

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“The smart money right now is that [Trump] can probably get the Russians and the Ukrainians to talk to both him and each other.”

“Unconventional decisions must be made to enhance the resilience of our defense and ensure more effective destruction of the occupiers. The battles are exceptionally fierce. The Russians are throwing all available forces forward, attempting to break through our defenses.”

“If the British Army was asked to fight tonight, it would fight tonight. I don't think anybody in this room should be under any illusion that if the Russians invaded Eastern Europe tonight, then we would meet them in that fight.”

“Everyone is feeling bad across the board. It has been a very long, hard year and the Russians are still grinding forward. But Russia is trying to suggest its victory is as inevitable as it was in World War II. The Russians would like you to believe this is 1944 on the eastern front. It isn't.”

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