Ukrainian units stormed through Russian defensive lines, capturing scores of soldiers and villages, as they quickly advanced some ten kilometres into enemy territory.
Similar accusatory reports regarding Gerasimov were circulating on Russian Telegram channels this week, as Ukrainian troops advanced deeper inside the Kursk region.
For days now Vladimir Putin’s forces have struggled to put down an incursion into Russian territory by Ukrainian troops, after a surprise attack that threatened to upend the war’s status quo and open a new front in a daring challenge to the Kremlin.
Little reliable information about the surprise Ukrainian operation has emerged, and its strategic aims are unclear.