RE: Russia-Ukraine war: Has Ukraine's Kursk incursion backfired?

Posted on: August 31, 2024 at 07:22:05 CT

Well, they've lost most of their mechanized equipment and all of their anti-air defenses. The brigades that invaded the border have lost half of the 12,000 troops deployed. The survivors are cut off from resupply and reinforcement and are being hunted down by regular forces of the Russian Army. When they invaded, all they had to do was rush past lightly guarded border police and local national guard units. The Russians do not concentrate large military formations and equipment up near the border within range of drones and HIMARS type surface to surface missile systems. The AFU pulled seasoned combat brigades out of the Donbas front to mount this incursion. They're getting chewed up and decimated for nominal territorial gains in thinly inhabited forested areas of the border. Some analysts believe their goal was to capture a nuclear power plant up near the city of Kursk. Maybe they intended to hold it for ransom and force the Russians to negotiate an end to the war. Maybe they hoped to create a nuclear disaster. The only motivation certain is they intended to embarrass Putin with the ultimate goal of regime change in Moscow. Its become another disaster for the Ukrainians.