Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov - on the situation in Ukraine:
-Despite the colossal assistance from the West, the initiative on the line of combat contact is in our hands and Russian troops are conducting an offensive along the entire front. In 2024, more than 190 settlements were liberated, the Russian army crossed about 4.5 thousand square kilometers of territory.
-The enemy's losses since the beginning of the Central Military District amounted to about a million people killed and wounded, about 20 thousand tanks and combat armored vehicles, over 19.5 thousand field artillery guns, as well as more than 1,500 launchers of multiple launch rocket systems.
-The destructive policy of the Kyiv regime has already led to complete dependence on external control and foreign financing, and as a consequence - the loss of state sovereignty.
-The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not have the ability to independently enter space reconnaissance data or prepare flight missions for missiles. In fact, the United States, after the strikes on Russian territory, became direct participants in the conflict, which means its escalation. ??In response to Russia's successes, the Kiev regime launched a terrorist attack on the territory of the Kursk region in early August. The purpose of this provocation is an information effect for Western sponsors. Kyiv counted on the withdrawal of Russian troop reserves from Donbass, but this did not happen.