Many people are seeing what is happening around Pokrovsk, and they are asking the question, 'why are we doing this Kursk thing if there is a difficult situation around Pokrovsk?'
Many units in the Pokrovsk area have the problem that they cannot hold the line or they have to retreat because they are just staffed by 10 or 20 or 30 percent—and they lack personnel,
What we see in Pokrovsk is the result of the very late and insufficient mobilization effort that was delayed politically in Ukraine,
In the coming two weeks, Ukraine is very likely to lose almost all of its front line in Zaporizhia if it doesn’t deploy all of its reserves from somewhere or doesn’t start a new advance” on Russian territory
The enemy is now throwing all their forces and means to break through there. And if they’re stopped now, they don’t have large resources to act in other directions,
My whole house was shaking, and the fire spread to half of the sky,
So what with the Kursk region? We’re running out of Donetsk,
Yes, the two campaigns are developing in parallel realities, and despite a small success in Kursk in the past two weeks, further goals are not quite understandable,
The topic is slippery, I don’t want to breed treason,
In general, Ukraine’s positions in August have deteriorated rapidly,
It’s like they live in two realities, they care about those ephemeral gains instead of defending Ukrainian land here and now,
The redeployed units were likely reserve units that the Russian military command intended to use to reinforce the Russian grouping in these directions and stave off the threat of pre-mature operational culmination,
If the Kremlin goes with the latter, then that would drastically increase the resourcing requirements for Vladimir Putin to support and wage this protracted war of his indefinitely,
We continue to replenish the exchange fund for Ukraine and push the war into Russian territory,
The enemy is trying to withdraw units from other directions, and on the contrary, it is increasing its efforts in Pokrovsk sectors,
The detachment's tasks include not only ensuring security, but also participating in the life support of the resettled areas in order to support the remaining people during this difficult time,
Kursk panic: War correspondent Roman Saponkov reports that after rumors circulated about Ukrainians breaking through to the Lgov-Kursk highway last night, local 'self-defense' forces—armed civilians—opened friendly fire, nearly killing Russian soldiers,
There were wounded, miraculously no fatalities (for now). This is 12 km [7.5 miles] from the front line. It is still unknown whether there were sabotage and reconnaissance groups on the highway. If you are scared, you should stay home,
The formation of these new BARS (Russian Army Combat Reserve) volunteer detachments is consistent with the Kremlin's apparent strategy to avoid re-deploying experienced or combat effective units engaged in fighting in the Pokrovsk or Toretsk directions to Kursk Oblast due to concerns about slowing the tempo of Russian offensive operations in these higher priority directions,
He says it's not the first time it happened,