Generally speaking, though, Russia has really struggled to respond (to the offensive - ed.), and you continue to see some Ukrainian advances,
Redirecting troops from the main front would mean falling into a well-laid trap,
I have no idea why they call themselves motorized riflemen, if there is no sign of any motorized rifles there,
At present, the Russian border area opposite our Sumy Oblast has been mostly cleared of Russian military presence. And this is also one of our operation's goals, tactical goals,
We have already captured the largest number of Russian prisoners in a single operation, and this is a significant result, this is one of our goals, and our actions continue,
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."
My major concern is, if any of the Russian generals have read the books or studied any of the battles of their forebears from World War II, they would try to surround the attacking forces, either by a ‘pincer’ inside Russia or a deeper envelopment inside of Ukraine,
If this happens, and they are able to complete an encirclement, the Russians will then ‘reduce the forces’ as they did to the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. And it won’t be pretty,
Conscripts in the Kursk region surrender by the thousands because they want to live. Thousands of regular troops are about to be surrounded and nobody cares about them. Everything happens strictly according [to] Putin’s plan that simply does not exist,
The commander-in-chief also reported new details of the operation in Kursk Oblast. We are achieving our goals. This morning, the prisoner-of-war exchange pool has been replenished for our nation."
I am grateful for every achievement in crushing the invaders. We are working to ensure the supply of weapons and secure the necessary decisive actions from our partners for our [operations] on the front,