Today marks six months of the Kursk operation. With our active operations on Russian territory, we have brought the war home to Russia. That is where they must feel what war truly means. And they do.
I thank every Ukrainian warrior and every unit involved in operations in the Kursk region. They have shown the world that, even with limited resources, we can act decisively, unexpectedly, and effectively.
We continue to expose Russia’s bluff for what it is. We are defending our cities—Sumy and Kharkiv—and significantly increasing our exchange fund. Hundreds of Russian soldiers are now in our captivity—soldiers we will change to bring Ukrainians home from Russian prisons.
Among the captured are also North Korean soldiers—they were wounded in battle, with severe injuries, and are now receiving medical treatment. Their presence is undeniable proof that Putin has drawn yet another country into this war—North Korea—and is training them in modern warfare. This poses a threat to everyone, especially to every nation in East Asia.
I am grateful to all our partners who understand how crucial it is to stop Russia now, so that there is no need to fight in years to come.
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Lori and I are proud to welcome President @ZelenskyyUa to Pennsylvania today.
Pennsylvanians stand with the people of Ukraine and their fight for freedom.
The Times: The USA and the UK may secretly authorize Ukraine to fire Storm Shadow at Russian territory
The countries may not announce their decision publicly in order to preserve the surprise effect, the newspaper quoted Western diplomats as saying.
Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg supported the idea of allowing Ukraine to launch long-range strikes against Russia and expressed skepticism about Putin's “red lines”.
A photo comparison that should never exist: Ukrainian soldiers returning from Russian captivity appear extremely thin, exhausted, and bearing numerous injuries from beatings and punishment cells.
@DefenceHQ@JohnHealey_MP Time to live by their example and take the fight to Nazi Russias
They didn’t stand by whilst Hitler paraded across Europe, we will not stand by as Hitler wannabes like Putin do the same.
#LetUkraineStrikeBack
@guyverhofstadt I respectfully disagree, the best way is for invest national projects, and not be dependant on Europe and make the UK more resilient.
The reason why I voted for Brexit was because every time we attempted to deport terrorists, the EU blocked it.
UK boarders UK laws
@DefenceHQ@Vernon_Coaker Time to live up to their example and take the fight to Nazi Russia.
They didn’t stand for Hitler to parade across Europe, we will not stand for Hitler wannabes like Putin to do the same.
Time to strike back at Russia.
Today, we once again commend our warriors for their precision—specifically on enemy territory. This is what fundamentally changes the situation—our ability to bring the war back home to Russia.
Another arsenal in Russia has been hit, and it was a significant one for the occupiers. I am grateful to all our warriors in the Defense and Security Forces of Ukraine who were involved. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, and everyone else who took part—great job.
There’s also commendable work by the Security Service of Ukraine on yet another Russian military depot. This one held Russian tactical missiles and guided bombs—all the tools Russia uses to terrorize our cities and positions.
We are achieving this thanks to our capabilities and our weapons—without the means our partners can provide, which could significantly accelerate the end of this war by destroying Russia’s offensive potential. If we could direct all our precision to defend Ukraine—if we had enough missiles and permissions that our partners can provide—the overall situation in this war would be much better for our security, and for the security of everyone in the world who doesn’t want to live in the conditions of such aggressions as this Russian one.
We are convincing our partners and will continue these discussions next week—Ukraine needs full long-range capabilities. Not just our own drones and missiles, which currently lack sufficient range, but everything the world can offer to protect against Russian terror.
"We offer a real formula for bringing peace, a concrete plan for how we can end the war," says President Zelenskyy in an interview with the New Yorker magazine ahead of his official visit to the US.
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#Russia has lost a 2-3 month supply of ammunition due to a strike on a depot in Toropets, Tver region, according to Estonian intelligence
Yesterday, Ukrainian forces destroyed the ammunition depot in Toropets, resulting in the detonation of around 30,000 tons of explosive munitions, equivalent to 750,000 shells.
At the current combat rate, Russia fires about 10,000 shells per week, making this a 2-3 month supply, said Ants Kiviselg, head of the Estonian Defense Forces Intelligence Center. He noted that the impact of this loss will be felt on the front lines in the coming weeks.
I’m pro-West. You should be too. We are not perfect and we have many flaws. But the alternative to the liberal democratic West is the emerging China-Russia-Iran axis. The red-brown-jihadist coalition of terrorism, rape and bloodshed.
People who want to eradicate democracy, liberalism, individual freedom. People who want to kill us and destroy our way of life and everything we cherish and love.
What can you do as a liberal if communists, fascists and Islamists define you as their eternal enemy and wish to destroy you?
You have to make tough choices. There comes a point where you have to drop the self-loathing. Drop the self-flagellation. Drop the existential guilt.
Liberalism is worth defending. My country is worth defending. My way of life is worth defending. The West is worth defending.
I will stand with people all across the world who want to defend this way of life. Because I’m not suicidal and I don’t intend to simply roll over and die. I don’t intend to offer my neck to the executioner’s blade and help them destroy democracy because of the history of colonisation or something. I didn’t have anything to do with it and neither did my family. The West abolished slavery.
We have built the best political and economic system humanity has yet devised. Liberalism is infinitely superior to communism. Infinitely superior to fascism. Infinitely superior to Islamism and all other forms of religious extremism.
We have to win.