Ukraine has launched a fresh offensive in Russia’s Kursk region, the Russian defence ministry says.
In a statement, the ministry said efforts to destroy the Ukrainian attack groups were ongoing. Officials in Ukraine have also suggested an operation is under way.
Ukraine first launched its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region in August last year, seizing a chunk of territory.
In recent months, Russian forces have made big gains in the area, pushing the Ukrainians back, but failing to eject them entirely.
If you thought that the doomed Ukrainian Spring 2023 counteroffensive, the doomed Ukrainian Spring 2023 counteroffensive Summer 2023 reboot, and the doomed Ukrainian Summer 2024 Kursk invasion were beyond idiotic, have a slice of Kursk II. Remember, the entire point of the Kursk invasion was for our proxy forces to seize the nuclear plant for usage as a bargaining chip in the inevitable peace negotiations. The Kursk invasion was a total failure. It was not a successful offensive. Tens of thousands of our best Ukrainian proxy troops were pulled off the already-collapsing front lines, ordered to drive across a lightly-guarded border, and to hunker down in sparsely-populated Russian territory. Besides accelerating the loss of troops and the collapse of the front, the Kursk invasion achieved precisely nothing.
It is as if our foreign policy is run by gambling addicts. Addicts, addicted to gambling away the lives of the Ukrainians for the long lost cause of expanding NATO.