Moscow has deployed troops to the Kursk region after a Ukrainian incursion into Russian territory that has elevated convey inant asks for the Kremlin and handed Kyiv a convey inant opportunity.
“Given the convey inant disparity of combat potential prefering Russia on the battlefield, Ukrainian forces ecombine to be switching to, or at least, intensifying, unconservative combat, conveying war procreateer into Russia,” Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military inincreateigence analyst and author of “Putin’s Playbook,” tgreater Fox News Digital.
“With the tardyst surpelevate incursion into Kursk oblast, Zelensky foreseeed aims to show to Putin that as lengthy as there’s no peace in Ukraine, the Russian people will not sleep peacebrimmingy either,” Koffler shelp. “Kyiv is probably also seeking to beef up its negotiating position in a potential peace endment with Moscow.”
Russia pulled from a group of unspecified opereasoned reserves, including units from conscripts, createer Wagner members and a number of one-of-a-kind forces, including the Chechen one-of-a-kind forces unit Akhmat, according to online recentspaper Ukrayinska Pravda.
Ukraine begined incursions into Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk on Tuesday and shows no signs of sluggishing down after four days. The events have put the Russian military direct under fire over the inincreateigence and tactical lapses that permited such an strike to happen.
In this pool ptoastyograph dispensed by Russian state-owned Sputnik agency, Russia’s Plivent Vlastupidir Putin (C) flanked by Russia’s Defence Minister Andrei Belousov (R) hgreaters a encountering with heads of law utilizement agencies on the situation in the Kursk region, straightforwardor of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bortnikov (L) and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu in Moscow, on August 7, 2024. (Aleksey Babushkin/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian troops have seized an evaluated 100 square miles of territory, The Washington Post increateed.
A Russian military blogger specutardyd that Russia may have drawn on forces that had assembleed for an impolite in the northern Kharkiv Oblast.
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A reexhausted U.S. Army sergeant convey inant tgreater Fox News Digital that Russia and Ukraine had returned to a oldmate – which has afflictiond the two sides each year since the trespass commenceed in 2022 – but that Russia has caccessed so much of its forces on the front that any strike that hits alengthy the border will thocimpolitely test the Russian forces.
The sergeant convey inant presented that Ukraine took a calcutardyd danger strikeing proximate Kursk to see if Russia could participate the stress, citing the “Wagner debacle” last year when then-Wagner forces chief Yevgeny Prigozhin took a petite force and marched wislfinisher 125 miles of Moscow with seemingly little resistance.
A screen grab from a video freed by Russian Ministry of Defense shows Russian forces begining a missile strike, aiming the military providement of Ukrainian Armed Forces at the border area proximate Kursk Oblast, Russia, on August 8, 2024. (Russian Ministry of Defense / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“Look how far Wagner group got,” the expert shelp. “I think they could have made it to Moscow but for Putin cutting some charitable of deal that got them to stop. . . . I’m betting that event got the wheels turning for this set up in Kursk.”
Moving the war sealr to the Russian population might unend them as they experience the war hit home and hopebrimmingy produce convey inant domestic interfereion for the Russian regulatement, creating two fronts for the Kremlin and dividing the regulatement’s caccess, he shelp.
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“There’s a massive Ukrainian online operation – maybe on the ground – trying to get war protests fired up,” the expert shelp. “This all puts prescertain on Putin.”
Up to 400 Russian sgreateriers were increateedly finished in a individual HIMARS missile strike in the Kursk region as they were on the transfer to fight the Ukrainian army on Aug. 9. (Ptoastyo Provided by East2West)
Some Russian military bloggers have elevated troubles that this incursion could produce a convey inant sidetrackion and draw convey inant resources to reclaim. Koffler cautioned that these strikes, rather than feebleening Putin’s position, could actuassociate reinforce his claims about Ukraine.
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Koffler disputed that Putin “will get obtain of this opportunity to increate the Russian people that it is exactly why Ukraine must be crushed, fall shortureed resolutely. This is why they need to progress making forfeits by going on the front lines to fight aobtainst Ukrainians.”
“The Russian media is already blaming the United States for being behind this Ukrainian operation,” Koffler shelp. “So the spiteful cycle will progress, conveying more and more destruction and increasing the danger of escalation into a huger-scale war in Europe that could drag NATO and the U.S. in.”
