Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia possesses weapons "that will have serious implications for the handlers of the Ukrainian regime."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stressed that Ukraine had deployed domestically produced – rather than Western-supplied – weapons to strike military depots in Russia. Source: President Zelenskyy’s video address on 21 September Quote from Zelenskyy: "Another arms depot has been hit in Russia,

Ukrainian Defense Forces targeted and destroyed Russian arsenals in the Tver and Krasnodar regions of the Russian Federation early Saturday morning.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that the end of the more than 2-1/2-year-old war with Russia depended on the "resolve" of Kyiv's Western allies in providing needed weaponry and permission to use it.

Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have noted that the Ukrainian military was able to take advantage of the situation to launch its operation in Russia's Kursk Oblast, despite the fact that Russia had known about and had been preparing for it for months.

According to analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Ukrainian military exploited the situation for an offensive in the Kursk region, despite Russia knowing and preparing for the Ukrainian Armed Forces' operations for months.