Image of the damage shared by the governor of Kursk, Alexey Smirnov
It was a risky, criticized operation that now ended up withdrawal – Russia has returned to a potential exchange chip.
We were in August last year when the Ukraine surprised and invaded Russia. More precisely, and confused the Russians.
It was a “large -scale provocation,” Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, said, thus reacting to the greatest attack on Russian sovereign territory since the 1941 Nazis invasion.
A few days after the offensive began, the Ukrainians even controlled Russian in that region. The idea was to press Moscow, divert the Russian forces from other fronts, and prevent Russian attacks on the border with neighboring parts of Ukraine.
And the Ukrainians fulfilled Most of its objectives, Today says the armed forces of the Armed Forces: Control Russian territory, enemy’s exhaustion, cause casualties on the other side, capture soldiers to exchange prisoners and withdraw from Russian reserves.
Oleksander Syrskyi, chief commander of Ukraine, said the operation deflected and killed some of the best Russian troops.
But a few weeks after the invasion began, the scenario began to be favorable to the other side: Russians would recover Almost everything and, by the end of 2024, came elite units of Kremlim, North Korea drones and military.
A Russia is again controlling Kursk. “Confirmation” arrived last week, with the removal of the Ukrainian troops of Sudzhain that region.
This defeat takes away from Ukraine a potential currencyin probable negotiations with Russia and US.
And there is another factor: even among the Ukrainians, there doubts about this risky operation that ended up with withdrawal. THE public opinion In Ukraine it is divided: Kursk served for what?
The agency heard some testimonies. Mariia Pankova, who lost her great friend in Kursk (for now, officially missing), believes that the cost of Ukraine’s risky raid in Russia may have been too high.
“I’m not sure if it was worth“Said the Ukrainian while crying.We are not invaders. We just need our territories back, we don’t need the Russian territory, ”he adds, giving voice to the thinking of many Ukrainians.
Soldier Oleksii Desevyi was left without a hand in Kursk. And don’t hesitate: “We should not have started this operation”.
Already last year, criticism came from another level-from Viktor Muzhenko, former head of the Ukraine Staff. Argued that your country should “Focus on the defense of its main territoriesavoiding risky and unpredictable operations that could divert attention from major threats, and choose ways and methods of using troops that are suitable for their abilities. ”
