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Russian forces have redeployed additional forces to Kursk Oblast since the first week of the Ukrainian incursion and have likely redeployed more than 5,000 personnel to Kursk Oblast overall,
Ukraine's use of maneuver in Kursk Oblast serves as an example of how Ukrainian maneuver, coupled with operational surprise, can result in comparably sized gains in significantly shorter periods of time with less manpower and materiel,
The operation is unfolding exactly as we expected,
Zelensky then said in his evening address on Saturday Careful preparation, planning, surprise, fighting spirit and informational silence became decisive in the initial stage of the operation,
the Airborne Assault Troops said in an online post The situation in the border area remains difficult, but our defenders are successfully working to destroy the enemy,
The Russians had a complete intelligence failure here,
French military expert Yohann Michel, research fellow at the IESD institute in Lyon, said in an interview What's going on with the lights? I've got no light or water,
said a woman posting as "Ekaterina Picasa." It's clear that substantial amounts of different engineer equipment were prepared and used,
said Paroinen, who studies publicly available footage from the Russia-Ukraine war Right now the risk of an armed invasion of the territory of Kursk region from Ukraine is not high. However, we are constantly working to strengthen the region’s defense capabilities."
The following month, he wrote We advise people to leave the town,
said one such message at 7:34 a.m. It was likely easier for Ukrainian forces to progress around and through Russia's fortifications in the region, especially if they were manned by fewer or poorly trained personnel,
We worked to preempt them, and they did not see this coming at all,
I would understand if it was difficult for the Russians to think something that big could happen,
Troops covering the state border, together with units of the border troops of the FSB of Russia, are repelling the attacks and inflicting fire on the enemy in the area of the state border and on its reserves in the Sumy region (of Ukraine),