Last Updated on 09/09/2024 by Arun jain
Ukraine has said that incursions into Russia’s Kursk region are helping Kiev’s forces better secure their border.
Andriy Demchenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s State Border Service, said Kiev’s army could now build border fortifications in Sumy Oblast instead of being further away from the border as it is forced to relocate due to Russian shelling.
By using drones and “other technical means of control,” Demchenko said Sunday that Ukraine now has the opportunity to build fortifications “directly along the border line.”
“We hope that we will be able to do this in the most powerful way possible to have powerful defense capabilities directly on the border in the future,” he told Ukrainian television, according to a translation.
On August 6, Kiev launched an operation that took Vladimir Putin And Ukraine’s allies were surprised. NATO Leader Jens Stoltenberg said the connection No warning was received about Ukraine’s intention to pressurize.
Newsweek The Russian Defense Ministry has been contacted for comment.
Demchenko’s comments give insight into the state of the Russian-Ukrainian border a month after the first push and Occupy the territory of Moscow by foreign forces after World War II.
The relative success of the Ukrainian operations showed the fragility of Russian defenses in the region under attack, but it would be wrong to assume that the entire Russian border is undefended, Nicolo Fasola said. Reinterpreting Russia’s Strategic Culture: The Russian Way of War.
“Infiltrating the Kursk region, the Ukrainians tried [incursions on] The Russian border is also in other places, but these attacks largely failed,” he said Newsweek. “Also consider that the Kursk region has not been an area of active conflict for a long time.”
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky This month said that Kiev plans to hold on to territory in Russia, although there are Anxious to open a new frontEspecially given the breadth of the front line in Ukraine’s Donbass region where Russian troops are advancing towards Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast.
“This incursion could negatively affect Ukraine’s ‘resource balance,'” said Fasola, who is a research fellow at the University of Bologna in Italy. “However, the aggression has not yet reached such a scale that a serious assessment of over-extension risks can be imposed on Ukraine.”
“Indeed, avoiding such a threat may be one of the reasons why the offensive will fail to penetrate deeper into Russian territory,” he said. Newsweek.
He said the Ukrainian attack represented his second failure Russian armyHowever, “I believe that Ukraine is unlikely to achieve any great success in Kursk.”
On Sunday, Russian forces launched a counterattack in Kursk as Ukrainian forces continued to target ground lines of communication in rear areas, according to the Institute for the Study of War think tank. Ukrainian Telegram channel Khorne Group posted a video saying that Kiev forces destroyed a bridge over the Seam River north of Karys in Glushkovsky district.
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