"Write in the missing person": the Armed Forces in Kursk Oblast can neither retreat nor counterattack - AP
About it writes The Associated Press with reference to the testimony of seven Ukrainian defenders. After the emergence of Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, more than 50 thousand soldiers were sent to the area, including some of the North Korea. During the counterattack of the Russian troops, thousands of Ukrainians were injured and injured over a large area of the Armed Forces lost more than 40% of 984 square meters.
kilometers of the captured Kursk region in August. During a full -scale invasion, almost three years ago, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation captured a fifth of Ukraine, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hoped that the control of the territory in the Kursk region would incline Moscow before the negotiations on the end of the war.
But five Ukrainian and Western officials in Kyiv reported on the conditions of anonymity that they fears that the rate on the Kursk bridgehead will weaken a thousandth -shaped front line, and Ukraine will lose important territories in the east. "We have spread the aspen nest. We created another hot spot," said Stepan Lutsov, Major of the 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade.
The Kursk operation began on August 5 in order to prevent the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to prevent the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation into the Sumy region. Having collected his fighters, one of the commanders of the company publicly told them: "We will create history; the whole world learns about us, because this has not happened since the Second World War.
" In private conversations, he was no longer so categorical and doubted the correctness of such a decision: "This is the same as madness. I do not understand why. " Some of the field commanders say that the conditions on the forefront are extremely complicated, low, and servicemen ask the command even about the expediency of all occupation in the Kursk region.
Another commander said that some of the orders that his fighters receive do not reflect the realities on the battlefield because of bad communication. Delayed orders are related to the losses of territories. "They do not understand where our side is, and where the enemy is under our control and what is not. They do not understand the operational situation, we have to act, relying on our own prudence," he explained.
One of the platoon commanders said that the higher management repeatedly rejected his request to change the defense positions of the unit because he knew that they would not hold the line. "Those people who stand by the end are missing," he explained, adding that in the last four months of the body at least 20 Ukrainian soldiers could not be taken from the battlefield: because of the intensity of battles, evacuation was associated with even greater victims.
Ukrainian soldiers said they were not ready for an aggressive Russian response in the Kursk region - and now they could neither contradrate nor retreat. "There is no other way out. We will fight here, because if we retreat to our borders, they will not stop. They will continue to move," - said one of the commanders of the drone unit.
In a comment to the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the journalists were informed that the forces of defense daily inflicted losses of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Ukrainian defenders are provided with "everything they need" to continue to fulfill their duty. One of the recent fighting collisions took place in the Vorontsov area, fortified area between the mentioned settlement and the flint.
Until last week, this territory was under the control of Ukraine. But this week, some of the territory was already captured by Russian troops, now the Ukrainian military is afraid that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will reach the key logistics route. Talking about the loss of territories in the Donbass, where Russian troops are approaching a key supply point, some soldiers ask themselves whether the Kursk operation was worth starting.