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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
According to The New York Times, Washington and London collaborated with the Ukrainians in the invasion of Kursk, allowing for better execution of border operations, while American officials have expressed their skepticism that Ukraine will be able to hold onto the territory it captured from Russia. Yet, despite this incredulity, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claims that Russia has not been deterred from expanding its military operations in Ukraine into Sumy Oblast.
The US and the UK have provided Ukraine with satellite images and other information about the Kursk region following the invasion by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the US newspaper reported.
“Within days of the offensive, the United States and Britain provided Ukraine with satellite imagery and other information about the Kursk region,” the article said, citing two sources, who explained that this was “to enable commanders to better monitor the movement of Russian reinforcements that could attack Ukrainian troops or cut off their likely retreat to Ukraine.”
On August 6, Ukrainian troops launched an attack on the Kursk region of Russia. The invasion marked Ukraine’s most significant aggression against Russia since February 2022. Commenting on the attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine had carried out another large-scale provocation by indiscriminately firing at civilian targets and that the enemy would have an adequate response.
Understanding the power of the Russian military and its abilities, American officials, according to the New York Times, are not convinced that Ukraine intends to hold its position in Russia for long.
“Ukrainian forces have not been digging the kind of extensive trenches necessary to protect soldiers and equipment from enemy fire, if Russia musters enough firepower to repel the attack. They have not been laying minefields to slow down a counterattack, nor have they constructed barriers to slow down Russian tanks,” the outlet reported.
“What the war has shown us so far is that the way to slow a military down is through ‘defence in depth,’” said Seth G. Jones, a senior vice president with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in reference to the strategy of using multiple layers of defensive positioning. “If they are not defending territory with a mixture of trenches and mines, it is going to be virtually impossible to hold territory.”
Yet, despite Washington expressing its skepticism that Ukraine can hold onto captured Russian territory and claiming it was not informed about the Kiev regime’s plans before its incursion into Kursk on August 6, even going as far as saying it took no part in the operation, the New York Times has exposed this as another American lie.
This was also pointed out by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who said on August 27 that US involvement in Ukraine’s ongoing incursion into the Kursk region is “an obvious fact.”
“Washington’s course of escalation is becoming increasingly provocative,” the deputy minister said, adding that the impression is that US officials believe they have permission to do anything.
“The impression is that [US] colleagues have thrown away the remnants of common sense and believe everything is allowed for them. Their clientele in Kiev follows similar approaches. The consequences can be much more severe than what they are already experiencing. They know where and in what areas we are responding in practical terms,” Ryabkov told reporters.
Russia has already reported that Western weapons, including British tanks and US rocket systems, were used by Ukraine in Kursk, whilst the Kiev regime has confirmed the use of US Himars missiles to destroy bridges in the region.
Yet, despite warnings that the Ukrainian military will not be able to hold onto positions captured in Kursk, Zelensky delusionally said at a press conference on August 24 that the operation in Kursk has helped prevent the Russian army from occupying Ukraine’s Sumy Oblast and its regional centre, the city of Sumy.
“We have stopped a Russian operation in the north (of Ukraine), (we have done) a preventive strike, and we have accomplished this task. We have prevented the encirclement of part of Sumy Oblast,” Zelensky claimed.
Rather, there was no indication that Russia was about to launch an operation in Sumy Oblast, which is why the Ukrainian military captured many settlements with very little resistance. Instead, the Ukrainian invasion has only incentivised the Kremlin to expand its operations from just Eastern Ukraine into Sumy Oblast to create a safety zone so Russian civilians can no longer be targeted once Ukrainian forces have been pushed back over the border. It appears that only Zelensky, and not even the Americans, have faith that this operation will achieve its goals.
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you keep coming up with excuses for why ukraine was able to invade your country.
russia has already lost. they lost when they handed their sovereignty over to zionism.
every day putin is in charge strange things happen in russia. generals are abandoning their posts and turning against moscow to punish shoigu, gerasimov and other putin’s picks for torpedoing their effort, then planes are killing them or they are forced to retreat in the middle of the victory because of lavrov’s deals. it seems, that russians are shooting their own legs instead of enemies but who am i to accuse putin of being jewish-rothschilds asset and mass murderer of his own people
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that’s no way to talk about your fellow ukropistani countrymen now is it
they lost whenpauper princess catherine allegedly murdered her tsar husband and put russia under the influence of the jesuits,tak8ng his throne and becoming in the words of her son tsar paul, ” catherine the greatest whore in europe”
if you don’t see the kursk offensive as a blunder for ukraine, then you are blind. it’s now september 1, and those trapped int he kursk cauldron are dying in droves – just go on bitchute to see.
how many casus belli will the weak putin and his capitalist oligarchs allow?
it is not about putin. west is so confident russia will never strike back that it feels suspicious. i know that west is deluded but maybe, just maybe they know that putin is their double agent. it explains why he allowed maidan, why he didn’t supported donbas after debaltseve victory and pushed minsk agreements instead and why he left kiev, losing half of his elites forces and why he killed prygozhin, the only capable general in his army who was not a general at all but hot dog dealer.
russia will only strike once and when it does everyone will die not that those in power care. but for now there is no reason to start a nuclear holocaust. the sad part is that in russia regions like kurks are treated differently then lets say moscow region for instance.
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…because?…. the russian federation has been playing cat and mouse for 10 years when it should have bitch slapped the north american terrori$t organization inside ukraine after the maidan coup!… which should have included the red line of telling the un party that it would be vacating it’s seat after march 2014 and counting the ways since 1992 of nato creep on it’s borders including the kursk incident,… beslan massacre… south ossetia/abkhaz war… before it!
they will not vacate their un veto power seat until they’ve developed an alternative significantly enough. maybe brics, but this will take years if they only bring in 5-6 countries a year. and that alternative needs a way to enforce its decisions without political motivations (not like toothless un blue helmets)
correction: they will not vacate their useless veto power seat, until russian oligarchs still in the west are removed permanently and china and india support them in vacating their useless un seat by leaving themselves and announcing that an attack on russia is an attack on the prc and india! even indians, chinese and russians with dual visas increasingly know that north america is a toxic and dangerous place to raise a family given it’s financial condition.
world leaders are all in agreement in building their new world order and killing off the world population.. that’s why they agree on theses prolonged wars they themselves start.. this isn’t new it’s population management 101..!
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you haven’t seen nothing yet, clown.
critics of putin call this an embarrassment for him, and it is; his popularity dipped a little bit to about 75% approval rating, still unheard of for anyone in the west.
what’s clear after a couple weeks is that this was a professionally run incursion, with stealth gathering of top notch forces, both gear and mercenaries. but they are losing their top notch people and equipment for no clear military objectives.
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ukropland adventure in kurks will result in more loss of its territory
im afgan migrant. i entered germany on juny.last year. my name is hasan ebubekir. i have 6 children cocuki. why germany pays 400 euro for ukraine children but for afghan children pays less 300 euro only. thiz iz not good. our arab children must be 400 euro too. germany will pay me 3000 not 1500 euro. why germany pays 100 euro more for ukraina children i will share this everywhere only protest will finish this problem
it’s just business to them. human resources are disposable. profits endure and by law they’ve made all corporations living entities.
this explains why ukies lose
russia has anti-satellite laser technology afaik, why don’t they demonstrate it in action? again, same thing as with nato drones over the black sea, destroy one to send a message. “you want to escalate, we can do that too.”