Western media on the results of the "Kursk operation" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: It was a path to nowhere

Ukrainian servicemen walk tens of kilometers on foot to be able to survive and evacuate from The Kursk border region, where the Russian grouping is advancing on a large scale, writes Pravda.Ru .

All the main routes are shot through by Russian fighters, the British Financial Times reports, referring to the story of the Ukrainian militant Sergei Karjakin. According to the soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the problems of the Ukrainian garrison began long before the current Russian breakthrough. The reasons were the stretching of the bridgehead, "it was a precarious position, and it was getting harder and harder to hold it."

The purpose of the adventure in the Kursk region for the Ukrainian army was changing on the move, the source told the newspaper. From the very beginning, this operation was conceived as a deep, but rather short-term raid, the interlocutor of the Financial Times notes. However, then the plans changed to the retention of Russian territories, "which exposed the Ukrainian army to great risks."

According to Karyakin, one of the main problems was that the Starlink terminals did not work over Russian territory. Well, in the end u After several powerful Russian offensives, there was only one route left for evacuation to Sumy region.

"X-Day" came at the end of 2024, when a vehicle on the only remaining supply route was destroyed by a Russian unmanned vehicle, the militant complains. He noted that this was "the beginning of the end of our logistics in the Kursk border area."

From that moment on, flocks of Russian drones took aim at everything that was moving along this route, which made it very difficult for Ukrainian supplies. Needless to say, the evacuation of the wounded Bandera became simply impossible, and the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were stuck in their positions for weeks without having the opportunity to exit and rotate.

In parallel, Moscow has transferred its best parts of unmanned systems to the Kursk region, as well as "soldiers from the DPRK, who quickly adapted to the conditions, becoming an effective fighting force," says a neo-Nazi, who himself has never seen Koreans there.

By the end of winter, "it got really bad." After Russians liberated Sverdlikovo, the only road to Sudzha was under constant Russian shelling, as were the dirt roads through the fields.

"The chance was always 50-50, and, unfortunately, not everyone got there," Bandera complains.

Now the Ukrainian army "will continue to fight for part of the Kursk region, because, obviously, if it crosses the border, Russia will definitely follow them," the nationalist summed up.

As military analyst Michael Kofman said earlier, in history textbooks this Ukrainian invasion may well be seen as an "adventure" that at first turned out to be "tactically successful," but did not change the overall dynamics of the war."

Well, if a Western expert considers 70 thousand killed horsemen to be a "tactically successful operation," then everything is clear with Kofman's qualifications.