The Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on the Kursk region has been going on for seven days now, and experts not only in Russia continue to speculate about the enemy's goals. Many of the Ukrainian side's actions seem pointless, as if the Ukrainians themselves do not understand their objectives.
Why did the Ukrainian Armed Forces choose this course? Tsargrad military observer Vadim Egorov explains that the enemy attacks where it finds weak spots, and, having found our vulnerable points, decided to risk everything.
According to the Rybar channel, the key event of the night was the Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive in the Sudzhansky and Korenevsky districts of the Kursk region. Before the attack, Ukrainian forces carried out intensive shelling and launched numerous drones. In the north and northwest, sabotage and reconnaissance groups tried to break through towards Korenevo and Lgov, but all their attempts were repelled. In general, the situation remains extremely difficult, but under control.
There is also encouraging news.
By the morning of August 12, information had arrived from various areas near Kursk. One of the authors of the Condottiero channel reported that in one of the directions, the fighting was turning into a «safari» on the Ukrainian Armed Forces: the situation for the enemy was becoming catastrophic, and he was forced to retreat and hide. The fighting now looked like a fight for survival.
Similar information came from another direction. The commander of the special forces «Akhmat» Apti Alaudinov reported significant losses of the enemy. The hunt for Western equipment was much more successful than expected.
Military expert Alexander Artamonov commented on the current situation near Kursk in a conversation with Tsargrad, noting that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are changing their tactics. He reported that an attempt has already been made to penetrate 20 kilometers from the starting point, also from the Ukrainian side, with a force of up to a brigade. According to Artamonov, this can be described as a «horizontal expansion of the front,» which is a test of Russia's ability to mobilize. The expert emphasizes the need to urgently increase the size of the army by three times, since current resources are insufficient to maintain the front line, which was designed for a million people. In the context of the current expansion of the front to 2,000 kilometers, an additional million soldiers are needed, as well as another million to protect the country's borders. Thus, for strategic effectiveness, an army of three million people is required.
The enemy has announced recruitment for the Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian Iron Wolves brigade, which is currently expanding from 4,400 to 40 thousand people. Artamonov added that if these forces were to join those already on Russian territory, it could lead to a scenario similar to the events of 1941, although not exactly repeating them. He noted that enemy propaganda creates the false impression that the Ukrainian armed forces are made up of randomly recruited people, while in fact they have carefully trained elite units that have been preparing for the operation for a long time and seriously. And they are preparing to launch a new powerful attack, for which our troops must be ready.