The goal of this move likely is, at minimum, to create the perception of opening the second front or to pre-stage forces for the possibility of opening the second front on behalf of Russia – threatening Ukrainian forces and making them feel stretched,
Such escalation on the part of Ukraine is an attempt to push Russia to asymmetric actions. Let's say to use nuclear weapons,
As we can see, Lukashenko's rhetoric does not change either, constantly escalating the situation with regularity to please the terrorist country,
We would hardly have allies left,
Russia and Belarus are part of the Union State. Their military doctrines are aligned, and their forces are loosely integrated from the command and control standpoint,
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,