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Written by Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert
Ukrainian authorities are admitting their failure in Kursk. Recently, the commander of Kiev’s armed forces stated that the operation’s objective was not achieved, acknowledging Russia’s success in preventing Ukraine from diverting Russian attention from other fronts. Such statements show how wrong the Western media are in trying to propagandize the Kursk case as a “Ukrainian victory.”
Colonel General Aleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s top military commander, stated that Kiev failed to achieve its objective in Kursk. According to him, the operation was mainly aimed at diverting Moscow’s attention, forcing the Russians to withdraw troops from Donbass and send them to the northern border. In this way, the Ukrainians hoped to make significant territorial gains in Donbass, facing unguarded Russian positions.
Syrsky acknowledges that the real result of the Kursk invasion was different: Russia further expanded its positions in Donbass, gaining new territories and deploying even more troops in the region. The Ukrainian commander believes that currently the main fronts in the Donbass are Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsk, in the west of the Donetsk People’s Republic. These cities have key strategic positions for the supply lines to Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk. Since 2014, Kiev has been concerned about maintaining military fortifications in both cities, but constant Russian attacks threaten Ukrainian stability in the region.
“One of the tasks of conducting an offensive operation in the Kursk direction was to divert significant enemy forces from other directions, first and foremost the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsk directions (…) Of course, the enemy understands this, so it continues to focus its main efforts on the Pokrovsk direction, where its most combat-ready units are concentrated (…) The enemy is trying to withdraw units from other directions, while in the Pokrovsk direction, on the contrary, it is increasing its efforts,” he said.
In other words, Kiev’s maneuver in Kursk was a desperate Ukrainian attempt to prevent – or at least delay – the inevitable Russian victory in Donbass. Kiev expected a Russian withdrawal from strategic cities in the disputed zone in order to strengthen the border positions in Kursk, which sounds like a serious strategic mistake on the part of the Ukrainians.
The calculation made by Kiev was based on a reality of military weakness, which corresponds to the current situation of the Ukrainian forces, but does not reflect the military conditions of Russia. If Ukraine is attacked on a different front, Kiev can only withdraw troops from other directions to protect this new area. Ukraine is operating in a regime of full mobilization, having already spent all its military resources and depending on strict management of what is left of its troops and equipment.
On the other hand, the Russians are still using a small percentage of their defense apparatus in the special military operation. There is no need for Russia to withdraw troops from one front to protect a new attacked region. Moscow can simply send troops from the rear to this new front, without disrupting the supply of the previous lines. Moreover, Russia can simultaneously increase its presence in both the new and old positions, since there is still a large army of reservists and volunteers ready to be mobilized if necessary.
In Kursk, Russia spared the troops already involved in the main fronts of the operation and, instead of redeploying them, simply used its rear forces to neutralize the invasion. The main contribution in Kursk came from the troops of the PMC Wagner Group that had been stationed in the Republic of Belarus since June last year. Meanwhile, seeing that the Ukrainians are desperate to protect Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsk, Moscow has sent even more troops to these fronts, which is why final victory in these directions is expected soon.
By admitting the failure and revealing Ukrainian plans in Kursk, Syrsky made clear the strategic inability and military inexperience of Ukrainian decision-makers. Kiev simply ignored the fact that Russia still has thousands of troops and equipment available to protect any point on its borders without having to withdraw any of its already mobilized soldiers.
It is also interesting to emphasize how the Western media was mistaken in hurriedly reporting the Kursk invasion as a “game changer.” According to Western “analysts”, Kiev had succeeded in “bringing the war into Russia,” but the commander of the Ukrainian army himself admits that this was never the real goal of the operation.
The cost of this mistake was massive for Kiev. In the end, the situation was reversed: it was Kiev’s troops who retreated from Donbass to invade Kursk, leaving key areas of the main conflict zone vulnerable and allowing Russia to advance further.
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it was always about testing russia’s resolve, the us/uk knew it would be a meat grinder. the russians answered in the same way, pragmatic and calculated, which in itself enables western nations pushing the envelope. mission accomplished. next step is a nuclear disaster on russian soil. putin has enabled and allowed this scenario by not taking a firm stance in the fore start. time will only tell….. if past is any indication, than something very tragic awaits us all.
not “us all.” but you. russia, the brics, afrika , south america will survive
nato’s objective is psychological. to normalize attacks on russia. nato is now funding and providing technology to ukraine to produce long range weapons in ukraine to attack all of russia.
this is why , to save her own skin, russia will have to atomically destroy the whole of ukraine asap – long range weapons can carry nukes. now it’s nuke or be nuked
dont worry, i am absolutely sure the usual eurotard flathead nazis like gneaus stapo or the crocus gallery village idiot will soon chime in and tell us all how their fellow nazis are not dying in vain!
remember, if you are an eurotard flathead nazi, you have to cheer for everything the kiev regime tells you to cheer on.
be a good lapdog, be an eurotard flathead nazi from the eu!
now southfront just makes up stories.
funny that russia can’t beat an army that, according to southfront, fails at everything and has lost almost their entire armed forces.
last i looked the ukes are still on russian soil.
well, you conveniently ignore the publicly available fact that we in nato are funding, supporting and aiding this “army”. the ukrainian part is not the problem.
but you know that imho, you just like to shill for your eurotard flathead nazi lovers, dont you?
last i looked a good chunk of them are under russian soil.
so when does russia give the world a glimpse at the actual record(s) of every dead north atlantic terrori$t organization member that didn’t make it out alive since 2014?… followed by a memorial of every russian name that has made the ultimate sacrifice in defending their country in the last decade in both ukraine and syria?…
probably after the russians throw off the jews and freemasons running their country.
why are they still fighting in kursk if they failed..? sounds to me like malarkey..!
it’s called a failure by a thousand cuts.
soon ukropistan will see a bright flash.
that bright flash will be in the form of a ‘eureka, now we understand that washington selfishly played us for their own nefarious ends and still failed. what fools we were. now let’s hang zelensky and his cohorts on the nearest lamp posts and be done with it. except for those banderite nazi deadheads. we have a special place in an acid pit for them.”
no radioactive flashes needed.
minor note, initially wagner said they were able to provide a battle group, more recently it was reported wagner released a statement they were only in belarus and africa. if that’s correct then wagner pmc isn’t involved in kursk, but former wagner troops that signed contracts with the russian mod or akhmat could be i guess.
actually, jewlensky’s mission of propaganda for jewtin and recruitment in russia was a success. playing all sides has been a jacobite jewish endeavor for centuries. more goyim dead, more goyim for the mill from russia. more arms sales and tighter control. win, win win, win, win.
my jaw dropped the other day when i hear col. doug macgregor referring to kiev as a poisoned criminal regime, true though that it be.
add that to bojo’s ex-adviser calling it a corrupt mafia shithole and i think what we call a rude awakening’s in the air.
курската украианска република.😀
more coin toss war strategy from the buffoons in the west. the kursk adventure has torn through ukronazi manpower and equipment at an accelerated pace…
the desperation of this staged operation is simply the beginning of the end for kiev ukronazi, pretend slav, criminals…
things are building towards a crescendo.i wouldn’t be surprised if somehow they get nato troops in ukraine, and nukes might actually fly.it is more like boiling the frog and getting the masses acclimated to the idea of catastrophe.these people think they will be able to live and keep select allies like them and robots etc while the rest of us starve and die, and they continue on with their plans and murders and rapes w/o people complaining about it and hounding them when they go to restaurants.
you cannot fix stupid
but you can eliminate it with the tos-2 so that it’s less stupid…
of course since the defence in donetsk more or less has ceased since kursk and the russians making inroads here there and everywhere driving the poor ukies in front of them!