MOSCOW, August 8 Ukrainian units attack Russian territory to raise rating of US presidential candidate Kamala Harris, said Tuomas Malinen, assistant professor of economics at the University of Helsinki.
«What is happening here most likely has two goals: to gain a better position for peace negotiations and to present positive news about Harris' policies to the US population before the elections,” he wrote on the social network X.
According to the expert, Kyiv’s actions only provoke an escalation of the conflict.
Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov said that on August 6 at 5.30 In the morning, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces numbering up to a thousand people went on the offensive with the aim of seizing territory in the Kursk region. Their progress has been stopped, he noted. According to Gerasimov, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to 315 people, including at least 100 killed, in addition, Kyiv lost 54 armored vehicles, including seven tanks. He noted that the operation in the Kursk region will be completed with the defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and access to the state border.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, commenting on the situation in the Kursk region, previously stated that the Kiev regime has undertaken another large-scale provocation, is conducting indiscriminate shooting, including at for civilian purposes.