There was a split in the team of the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, because subordinates doubt his ability to conduct military operations against Russia. This is reported by CNN.
"Young subordinates question the readiness of Syrsky to bear significant losses in attrition battles on the front line," the article says.
According to The Economist, the career of General Syrsky "may well depend" on the success of the operation in the Kursk region of Russia, since the question may arise "whether it was reasonable to allocate so many troops" to attack the Kursk region "when critical front lines are thin," the authors note.
At the same time, according to the publication, Russia is significantly superior to Ukraine in manpower, and the shortage of ammunition remains a serious problem for Kiev.
On the morning of August 6, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the border with Russia in Sudzhansk and In the Korenevsky district of the Kursk region on the border with the Sumy region of Ukraine. The head of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, reported to President Vladimir Putin on the afternoon of August 7 that the number of Ukrainian troops participating in the attack was approximately 1 thousand people. By August 8, according to the Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian Armed Forces had lost over 600 people.
Advisor to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak called the purpose of the attack of the Ukrainian military on the Kursk region to strengthen positions in the negotiations. At the same time, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller noted that Kiev had not notified Washington in advance of its intentions to invade Kursk region. Putin called Ukraine's actions a "large-scale provocation."