Zelenskyy: I respect Fedorov and Syrskyi. But deep-strike success was never about one person.
Credit goes to our army, our secret service, and our special forces, especially sea-drone operations. Soldiers carry out operations, not somebody else.
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Zelenskyy: I had a big problem, not for days or weeks, for months, in the dialogue between the chief of the army and the chief of the ministry of defense.
The challenge was mobilization: Russia could have 500,000-plus people by October, and I needed unanimity between them. 2/
Zelenskyy: With all respect to Syrskyi and to Fedorov, they still have to work together, or they can't send the right message to the army, our team, or our partners.
Whether they choose to keep doing that now is up to them. 3X
Tokayev to Putin: Russia-Ukraine conflict should be frozen.
Kazakhstan does not understand the nature of Russia’s war against Ukraine, — FT. 1/
Kazakhstan is one of Russia’s few close partners and shares a 7,600 km border with it. Tokayev has avoided direct condemnation of Putin, but repeatedly refused to recognize Russian-backed separatists and recognized Ukraine as sovereign. 2/
Tokayev said it is tragic that young people are dying, calling them “the gene pool of the brotherly peoples of Russia and Ukraine.” 3/
Interceptor drones allow Ukraine to destroy up to 90–95% of aerial targets at a very low cost. They are a genuine game changer. Every interceptor can save lives, making it vital for Ukraine’s future.
WSJ with Lasar’s Group, a Ukrainian drone unit. 1/
«AI works in two stages. First, it identifies a likely target and alerts the crew. After the pilot confirms it, autonomous mode takes over. The drone’s computer controls the motors, accelerates and closes in on the target». 2/
«Interceptor drones are panacea from Russian Shaheds. A mobile fire group covers only 2 kilometers. My official range is 15 kilometers, and in practice I can fly farther — as long as the drone has power». 3/
Anton Rozhdestvenskyi, a russian soldier, lived in his dugout next to a dead comrade for weeks. He slept beside the body, ate beside it, and doused himself in perfume to hide the smell.
It didn't work. He reeked of the corpse the whole time. 1/
That comrade had lain near him one night, said he felt ill, and asked to borrow Anton's phone. Anton handed it over, and they both fell asleep. By morning the man hadn't woken up. Anton and the others wrapped the body and propped it against the dugout wall. 2/
He'd been pulled from a penal colony as replacement. He was one of the last healthy men left before commanders started sending the sick ones too. They handed him body armor, a helmet, and an AK-12, then told him to walk to the position alone that same day. 3/
Boris Johnson spent 90 minutes inside Ukraine’s “kill zone” for a new documentary.
He stayed in a town under Russian drone attacks, met troops making explosives from plastic toilet pipe, and said Britain should send Ukraine more advanced weapons. 1/
Johnson’s first night near the front: drone strikes hit a nearby apartment block similar to the one where he was staying.
At a shop still open in the “kill zone,” an elderly woman shouted: “What would you do if they started bombing? Look around!” 2/
The film opens with a Russian drone attack on a civilian passenger train that killed 6 people and injured many more.
Johnson: “It wasn’t an accidental hit but a premeditated attack and nothing short of an act of terrorism.” 3/