Ukrainian troops carried out a large-scale offensive on the Kursk region of Russia, which was the first invasion of a foreign army on the territory of the Russian Federation since the Second World War. This operation, in which about a thousand Ukrainian soldiers took part, exposed the weakness of the Russian border defense and caused panic among the Russian leadership.
Bloomberg notes that this is the first invasion of the Russian Federation by a foreign army since World War II.
The offensive "revealed the fragility of Russia's border defenses" as the group grows in Ukraine.
He "raised Ukrainian morale" and "undermined the Kremlin's carefully constructed image of Putin as the protector of ordinary Russians."
"Instead, the war he started in Ukraine is now increasingly spilling over into the territory of Russia, where people in the border regions live under the constant risk of shelling and drone strikes on key industrial facilities," the newspaper writes.
For Ukraine, according to Bloomberg, this will strengthen its arguments that the United States and Europe should not be afraid of Russian threats of escalation and should allow Ukraine to fight Putin in any way it deems necessary to hasten the end of the war.
Ukraine has not officially announced the goals of the operation, so the publication lists the following versions: from an attempt to capture the territory as a potential bargaining chip in future negotiations with Moscow to a diversionary tactic to relieve pressure on Ukraine's stretched defenses by distracting Russian forces from the front line.
