Ipse by Tag - Russians

Gabriel Elizondo

Inserted 1 year ago

“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.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Kiev

10 Sep 2022 4 3

Tarik Oguzlu

Inserted 1 year ago

“I don't think that the Russian explanation on this particular issue [Vladimir Putin claiming that almost all the Ukrainian grain shipped under a UN-backed deal to ease a global food crisis is reaching rich European nations] reflects the reality on the ground. I think the Russians are feeling a growing exposure to Ukrainian attacks in recent days, and also the Europeans are increasing pressure on Russia, so I think the Russian leadership might have decided to find a way to inflict damage [given] this growing assault. We should see [this] as part of a larger geopolitical game. It's part of a tit for tat [situation]. I find the idea that the Ukrainian ships are targeting nations other than the ones in the Global South somehow fabricated.”

Aljazeera

Professor of international relations at Istanbul Aydin University

08 Sep 2022 7 2

Josep Borrell

Inserted 1 year ago

“I don't think that to cut the relationship with the Russian civilian population will help and I don't think that this idea will have the required unanimity. I think that we have to review the way that some Russians get a visa, certainly the oligarchs not. We have to be more selective. But I am not in favour of stopping delivering visas to all Russians.”

Aljazeera

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

28 Aug 2022 5 3

Hulusi Akar

Inserted 1 year ago

“In our contact with Russia, the Russians told us that they had absolutely nothing to do with this attack and that they were examining the issue very closely and in detail. The fact that such an incident took place right after the agreement we made yesterday really worried us.”

Aljazeera

Turkish Defence Minister

23 Jul 2022 3 1

Ihor Romanenko

Inserted 1 year ago

“It's a minor loss, there's still Lysychansk [the neighboring town controlled by Ukraine], and Severodonetsk has largely served its purpose. There is a geopolitical component for Russians, it's a district centre in the unoccupied part of Luhansk. But we will live through it, we are more interested in the military aspect.”

Aljazeera

Lieutenant General - Former deputy chief of Ukraine’s general staff of armed forces

24 Jun 2022 3 2

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 Gaidai

Inserted 1 year ago

“The Russians were in control of about 70 percent of the city, but have been forced back over the past two days. The city is divided in two. They are afraid to move freely around the city. Ukrainian forces had captured eight Russian prisoners. Russian general Aleksandr Dvornikov has set himself a target of taking full control of Severodonetsk by June 10, or controlling the Lysychansk-Bakhmut road. All of the forces, all of the reserves are concentrating on these two tasks.”

Themoscowtimes

Luhansk Governor

05 Jun 2022 8 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

Fiacre Salabe

Inserted 1 year ago

“A number of citizens here consider Wagner's presence a good thing, especially since their operatives and our army pushed back an assault on our capital, Bangui in January 2021. The appreciation of the Russians is absolutely tied in with anti-French sentiment, similar to what you find in Mali, for instance. France is considered dishonest and unhelpful. There are regular anti-French demonstrations, these are organised by people close to those in power here.”

Aljazeera

Freelance journalist in the capital Bangui

20 May 2022 6 4

Mark Cancian

Inserted 1 year ago

“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.”

Rferl

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

Jack Keane

Inserted 1 year ago

“Our assessment is that they're (Russians) having to pull some forces away from the axes leading to the control of the Donbas region because of what has happened in Kharkiv, and it just underscores the challenges they have.”

Reuters

Retired American four-star General now chairman of the Institute for the Study of War think tank

10 May 2022 4 2

Neil Melvin

Inserted 1 year ago

“They're trying to cut in and behind the Russians to cut off the supply lines, because that's really one of their (the Russians') main weaknesses. Ukrainians are getting close to the Russian border. So all the gains that the Russians made in the early days in the northeast of Ukraine are increasingly slipping away.”

Reuters

Director International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

10 May 2022 5 2

Oleksiy Arestovych

Inserted 2 years ago

“We have serious losses but the Russians' losses are much much bigger...They have colossal losses.”

Reuters

Adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy

29 Apr 2022 2 4

Mykhailo Podolyak

Inserted 2 years ago

“If you (Russians) decide to massively attack another country, massively kill everyone there, massively crush peaceful people with tanks, and use warehouses in your regions to enable the killings, then sooner or later the debts will have to be repaid. It is not possible to sit out the Russian invasion. And therefore, the disarmament of the Belgorod and Voronezh killers' warehouses is an absolutely natural process. Karma is a cruel thing.”

Reuters

Advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

27 Apr 2022 6 2

Oleg Ustenko

Inserted 2 years ago

“Imagine how many missiles and bombs you can buy for that kind of money. Some people in Europe still have extremely narrow thinking. They believe they can help us, that they're our great friends and indeed they are. But they do not understand that by supplying this money to Putin, they are funding his military machine. If Russians are committing war crimes, even genocide, whoever is supplying Russia with this bloody money is guilty of the same war crime.”

Theguardian

Economic adviser to the President of Ukraine (Zelenskyy)

23 Apr 2022 4 4

Ivan Fedorov

Inserted 2 years ago

“It was a dangerous six days because I understood that for Russians my life and the lives of civilians were worth zero. They came to me at night with five or seven soldiers and spoke for about four or five hours, hard dialogue. They wanted to make an example of me about what would happen if we did not agree to what the Russians wanted. Russian soldiers assumed that they would be welcomed but they were not ... and that is why the Russians were very, very angry. There is no food in my city. There is no pharmacy. Half of my city is wrecked. More than 200 people have been kidnapped. It is not safe to walk the streets.”

Reuters

Mayor of Melitopol

18 Apr 2022 4 3

Oleh Zhdanov

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Azovstal factory is an enormous space with so many buildings that the Russians ... simply can't find (the Ukrainian forces). That's why they (the Russians) started talking about trying a chemical attack, that's the only way to smoke them out.”

Reuters

Military analyst based in Kyiv

15 Apr 2022 5 1

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 2 years ago

“Mariupol has been destroyed. There are tens of thousands of dead, but even despite this, the Russians are not stopping their offensive. We need air defence systems, aircraft, tanks and other armoured vehicles, artillery systems and ammunition. And you have something that can be indispensable for us. You have it … It is necessary to help.”

Aljazeera

President of Ukraine

11 Apr 2022 10 2

Jake Sullivan

Inserted 2 years ago

“We're going to get Ukraine the weapons it needs to beat back the Russians to stop them from taking more cities and towns where they commit these crimes.”

Reuters

US National Security Adviser

10 Apr 2022 2 3

Mark Galeotti

Inserted 2 years ago

“Russia is not going to collapse … but in terms of the impact on the Russian state as a powerful state able to sustain foreign military and political adventures, that's a very different matter. In terms of Russia's place in the world, it will be hard for the Russians - and certainly while Putin is in power - to not be considered essentially a pariah state. His legacy will be as someone who from arrogance and hubris […] has basically wasted years of rebuilding Russia's military, political, economic and soft power capabilities in the world.”

Aljazeera

Director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence

05 Apr 2022 3 4

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“In our contact with Russia, the Russians told us that they had absolutely nothing to do with this attack and that they were examining the issue very closely and in detail. The fact that such an incident took place right after the agreement we made yesterday really worried us.”

“Our assessment is that they're (Russians) having to pull some forces away from the axes leading to the control of the Donbas region because of what has happened in Kharkiv, and it just underscores the challenges they have.”

“We have serious losses but the Russians' losses are much much bigger...They have colossal losses.”

“The Azovstal factory is an enormous space with so many buildings that the Russians ... simply can't find (the Ukrainian forces). That's why they (the Russians) started talking about trying a chemical attack, that's the only way to smoke them out.”

“We're going to get Ukraine the weapons it needs to beat back the Russians to stop them from taking more cities and towns where they commit these crimes.”

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