Border breakthrough in the Kursk region: what goals pursue the offensive and what the Russian Federation will answer

The opening of the front in the Kursk region is not like the ordinary attempt to break the saboteurs. The degree of tension increases: the army of the Russian Federation loses control of a number of villages, and the Armed Forces command keeps the details in secret. Focus found out what goals are pursuing a new military operation. In the border areas of the Kursk region on August 6, active fighting began with the use of artillery, tanks, aviation and drones.

The situation in the region receives fragmentary information mainly from Russian military warriors. The propagandists claim that military groups on the Ukrainian side are moving to the city of Sudzh. Initially, the fighting on the border resembled standard attempts to break the sabotage and intelligence groups (DRG). In 2023, the fighters of the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Legion "Freedom of Russia" were already coming to Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions.

But by the evening of August 6, the degree of tension increased: the fighting looks more serious, a large number of military and armored vehicles are involved. The Sudzh is located a gas distribution station, and on which the Russian Federation supplies gas to European countries transit through Ukraine. The city is located 10 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, which is led by a direct R-200 route.

The Armed Forces Command did not formally comment on the beginning of the breakthrough of the Russian-Ukrainian border. The Ministry of Defense of Russia declared the event from 8. 00 in the morning on August 6, allegedly three hundred soldiers of the 22nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces with the support of 11 tanks and more than 20 armored vehicles.

Further, the Russian side was "confused in the testimony": the governor of Kursk region Alexei Smirnov and a number of warrior spokes of fighting in the border districts of Sudzhansky and Korenev districts. Also, according to them, "the Armed Forces" were taken "settlements of Nikolaev-Darino, Sverdlikovo and Gogolivka, combat collisions continued in Goncharivka and in the farm of Oleshny.

By the evening of August 6, the Defense Ministry stated that the Ukrainian DRG, which had entered the Kursk region, suffered losses and retreated to its territory, but soon the message was removed. Eyewitnesses also said that at about 1:40 am the sounds of explosions in the sky above Kurchatov, where Kursk NPPs are located. The Russian authorities did not confirm this data, the station operates in a regular mode.

The Deep State Analysts Team late in the evening of August 6 cited data on key events in the Sudzhi area. A group of captive Russians was allegedly sent to the territory of Ukraine. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation managed to impress one of the BMP, the fate of the machine and the crew is unknown. In addition, it is known about the destruction of enemy infantry in the Nikol Belogorsk Monastery.

The destruction of two tanks of the Russian Federation on the tracks of the northwestern part of the city and a KA-52 helicopter in the lower wedge was recorded. The Armed Forces Command did not respond to this information. The General Staff of the Armed Forces in the morning summary on August 7 did not confirm the offensive maneuvers of the Armed Forces towards the Kursk region.

The command notes that at the border with the Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the enemy retains military presence, firing settlements from the territory of Russia with mortars and artillery, and also compacts mine-explosive barriers along the border. "Our warriors continue to inflict on the occupying troops of significant losses in living strength and equipment, depleting the enemy along the entire line of combat collision," the report reads.

The press center of the Armed Forces General Staff in response to the request of focus to comment on events in the Kursk region did not explain the details of the operation. Meanwhile, Russian Telegram channels note the promotion of unknown units in the depths of the Russian Federation up to 15 kilometers, the front width is 10-11 kilometers.

"The Armed Forces were present as of the evening in Lyubimivka, Obukhivka, Pokrovsky, Green Way, thick meadow, Lower wedge, thick meadow, Nikolaev-Darino, Darino, Drill, Swan. From the messages. The military operation in the Kursk region, according to the volunteer from the 24th OSHB of the Aidar Battalion Stanislav Bunatov, is conducted to strengthen Ukraine's positions in future negotiations. "Our work in the enemy is caused not by delaying the reserves of the enemy . . .

Now Russia can put any conditions [during negotiations], because no matter how much we conquer our territories, they don't care. They do not lose anything. For us it is practically virtually va -Bank: either now we give a pi *** and we are waiting for roosters to sing, or a possession *** m and we see how the territory of Ukraine melts as ice on a fire, "he wrote in Telegram.

The Sudzhi surgery was chosen to create a "sanitary zone", and not 50 thousand personnel operated, as the Russian group "Sever" was in May 2024 in Kharkiv region, but only 300 people. If the group consisted of 3,000 soldiers, the judge could be "released", according to the military observer, coordinator of the group "Information Resistance" Alexander Kovalenko. "Obviously, 300 people are not DRG. As a rule, saboteurs come in a group of up to 20 people.

Why are there no official comments from Ukraine? It is not entirely clear who is acting there. Perhaps volunteers with" RDK "and" LSR ", or or" LSR " The new unit. According to the expert, the fears of strengthening the bombing of Sumy region. However, the hostile army regularly attacks the region and, if not first, the invaders equate the region with the land, he is convinced. "300,000 soldiers will be collected at the border and will be stormed.

The" sanitary zone "is now expanding in the territory of the Russian Federation, if it is fixed by at least 10 kilometers, any barrel and jet systems of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will be ineffective," the analyst notes. The promotion of Russians in the Donbass is not a reason to cancel operations in Russia. According to Oleksandr Kovalenko, the army of the Russian Federation moves in the Avdiivsky direction since October 2023, and now in Toretsko-Pokrovsky.

Successes on a 24 kilometers' length per year of battles will clearly not collapse the front. The main forces and means of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were concentrated in the north of Kharkov, now they can be drawn to the Kursk direction together with Belgorod and Bryan reserves.

Another version of events from Russian experts is the distraction of the resources of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the offensive in the Zaporozhye direction, the liberation of Energodar and Zaporizhzhya NPP. From the point of view of military science, according to Kovalenko, it is illogical because of the combat situation in the region. Vasylivka and Dnieper, overcome the distance along the railway almost 70 kilometers - an unfulfilled task.