Ukrainian units in the Kursk region appear unable to defend themselves from Lancets and are constantly sitting under Orlans.
The losses are beginning to mount and the AFU continues to push into heavy Russian resistance. pic.twitter.com/s1mv4qwRn2
— ayden (@squatsons) August 11, 2024
FAB hits a group of Ukrainian terrorists and multiple armored vehicles in the Kursk region.
🇷🇺 Welcome to Russia!
Enjoy your stay.
pic.twitter.com/U8OO9pplvx— Gabe (@GabeZZOZZ) August 12, 2024
The utterly unsustainable insanity of Zelenskys Kursk raid is laid bare.
An entire column of 7 Ukraianian BTR-4E armored personnel carriers wiped out by former Wagner PMC fighters in the village of Gir in the Kursk region,
All while Russias advance in the East accelerates. pic.twitter.com/vnSvGxfJgO
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) August 12, 2024
Ukrainian forces are facing defeat and abandoning their vehicles in Russia as Zelensky runs out of ammunition, soldiers, and food.
FIrst Napoleon, then Hitler.. now Zelensky pic.twitter.com/Tc1PfbJl7H
— Russian Market (@runews) August 12, 2024
Whose idea was it for the Ukraine to invade pre-2022 Russian borders?
What is the goal?
It was surprising, I’d say. Everyone is surprised. And on that level, it is apparently a success.
But what possible strategic purpose could it serve? They say it is to force Russian soldiers to move off of the front lines, but this attack is not big enough for that. They are just going to send different soldiers.
Ukraine said on Monday its biggest cross-border assault of the war had captured 1,000 square kilometres (386 square miles) of Russia’s Kursk region and that Russian President Vladimir Putin would have to be forced into making peace.
With Russia still struggling to repel the surprise assault a week after it began, Ukraine’s top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi briefed President Volodymyr Zelenskiy by video link and said the advance into Russian territory was ongoing.
“We continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Kursk region. Currently, we control about 1,000 square kilometres of the territory of the Russian Federation,” he said in a video published on Zelenskiy’s Telegram account.
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Putin has described the cross-border attack as a “major provocation” and said it was aimed at improving Kyiv’s negotiating position.
Zelenskiy told Ukrainians in his nightly address that the operation was a matter of Ukrainian security and the Kursk region had been used by Russia to launch many strikes against Ukraine.
He said Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, which lies across the border from Kursk region, had been struck by Russia almost 2,100 times since June 1.
“Russia must be forced to make peace if Putin wants to fight so badly,” Zelenskiy said.
They don’t control 1,000 km sq. That’s stupid.
The only thing this is going to do, in real life, is pressure Putin into upping the ante.
❗️ Zelenskyy: “Kursk is Putin’s finale. The catastrophe of his war”
“24 years ago, there was the disaster of Kursk – symbolic beginning of Putin’s regime, and now we can see what is the finale for him. It is also Kursk.” pic.twitter.com/eHjmnNWyIM
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) August 12, 2024