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Ten thousand Ukrainian troops attacked the Russian mainland and occupied 1,000 square kilometers of land. Putin urgently deployed troops but fell into the trap of siege and attack.

2024-08-13

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According to CCTV International News, on August 12, local time, the acting governor of Kursk Oblast, Smirnov, reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin that 28 settlements in Kursk Oblast with a total of about 2,000 people were controlled by the Ukrainian army. Since there is no clear "front line" in Kursk Oblast, it is difficult to determine the specific location of the enemy. The state has dug a 40-kilometer-long anti-tank trench.

On the same day, Putin held a meeting on the situation in Kursk Oblast, Russia. Putin said that the most urgent and important thing at the moment is to immediately drive the Ukrainian army out of Russian territory. Putin believes that Ukraine is trying to gain more bargaining chips for negotiations by launching an attack on Kursk Oblast.

As early as May last year, Prigozhin, the boss of Wagner Group, suggested that the Russian army must enter the Kharkiv Oblast of Ukraine to establish a real buffer zone. If not, then the next best option is to establish a buffer zone on the border of Kursk and Belgorod Oblasts in Russia to prevent Ukrainian army raids.

Unexpectedly, after Prigozhin's death, his words came true.

According to Ukrainian sources, the Ukrainian army has increased its strength in Russia's Kursk region to five brigades, with more than 10,000 Ukrainian troops and more than 600 tanks andInfantry fighting vehicle, occupying nearly 1,000 square kilometers of territory in Kursk Oblast, and subsequent artillery, drones and other equipment are also on the way through the breakthrough.

It can be seen that the Ukrainian army's participation in the war is beyond the outside world's expectations. You know, at the beginning, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that only more than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers entered Kursk, but now the number of participants has quietly exceeded 10,000. The participating forces may be 4 mechanized brigades and 1 air assault brigade of the Ukrainian army. It is not certain whether it is a full-scale attack or a partial mobilization, but it has already penetrated 25 to 30 kilometers into Russian territory.

The Russian army is sending a large number of troops to reinforce Kursk, and all the reserve troops in the hinterland have been deployed. It is reported that at least 9 newly formed brigades or main forces are rushing to support the Russian army, including marines, airborne troops, tanks and infantry from the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, the Far East and the eastern part of Ukraine.

However, on the night of August 8, local time, a Russian reinforcement force was "attacked" by the Ukrainian army on the road.HimasRocket LauncherThe precision strike is estimated to have killed more than 20 Russian soldiers and injured more than 100, and there are more than one similar cases.

After the Ukrainian army took over the traffic routes in the occupied areas, they monitored the progress of the Russian reinforcements to a certain extent by checking the surveillance and reporting the real-time data, creating conditions for besieging and attacking the reinforcements, and ambushed several Russian reinforcements in succession. It can also be seen that the Russian army's response to the Ukrainian army's surprise attack was very slow, clumsy and crude.

Originally, the outside world generally believed that the Ukrainian army's surprise attack on the Russian mainland was simply for strategic containment. As a result, the weak defense of the Russian border allowed the Ukrainian army to fight more smoothly than expected, and even had the conditions to develop into the main battlefield.

At present, most of the 600,000 main Russian field troops are stationed in Donbass and Zaporizhia. If the Russian army recalls elite troops from the front line, it will not be difficult to recapture the lost territory. However, the Russian army does not seem to have this intention. After all, the Russian army can still draw troops from the battlefield for rotation, and with the cooperation of the reserve forces, it is still feasible to defeat the Ukrainian army with this amount of troops.

At this critical juncture, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the situation in Palestine and Israel, and the US election are essentially linked. Ukraine's invasion of Russia will inevitably affect the situation in Palestine and Israel and the US election, or in other words, the situation in Palestine and Israel and the US election require Ukraine to deliver such a report card.

Therefore, if the Ukrainian army can hold out for a few more days, it will have great symbolic significance. First, it will show Europe and the United States that they still have fighting power and give them money! Secondly, it can promote it internally, boost morale, and strengthen control over the troops; and, as Putin said, it can increase bargaining chips for negotiations. The most important thing is to make the Russian border defense task more arduous and play a strategic containment role.

At the same time, this can also add points to the campaign of Harris of the Democratic Party of the United States, giving her more to say in the debate with Trump, and it can also divert the focus of international public opinion to Israel, buying time to deal with the crisis. In any case, although Ukraine's actions have embarrassed the Russian army at the moment, the overall battlefield results are still incomparable to those of the Russian army. The Ukrainian army's invasion of Russia was a pleasure for a while, and as the expulsion of the Ukrainian army was listed as a top priority by the Russian side, how the Ukrainian army can defend the occupied area is the biggest challenge.