The rapid promotion of Russian troops in the Kursk region forced the Ukrainian forces to leave almost the whole territory except a small area. About it reports The Wall Street Journal .
According to Ukrainian officials, the decision to withdraw troops was made to preserve the lives of military and optimal allocation of resources on other fronts. However, this decision caused disputes among international analysts and within the country itself.
Ukraine hoped to keep the territory in Kursk as a trump bargain, but Ukrainian officials stated that troops needed to be withdrawn in order to save people's lives.
Critics of the Kursk Operation stated that the withdrawal of troops showed that it was a wasteful recklessness, which resulted in some of the best Ukrainian troops and their valuable Western armored vehicles, which was essential on other fronts of Ukraine.
However, some analysts have stated that Ukraine, which is inferior to its giant neighbor, was forced to use non -standard solutions.
“What is one bad option among many bad options? Ukraine faces a dilemma? ” Said Nick Reynolds from the Royal Institute of the Joint Armed Forces in London.
According to Ukrainian officials, the operation has reached some of its initial goals: it proved Ukrainians and Western supporters that the military can still conduct offensive actions, prevented the expected Russian invasion in the same area and seized soldiers for exchange for Ukrainian prisoners who are inhumane.
At the same time, Ukraine managed to stabilize the key sections of the front line in eastern Ukraine, pushing Russia in the Pokrovsk region and counter -attacking near Toretsk, which was on the verge of admiration.
Russian tactics in Kursk region
According to WSJ, in conditions where Ukrainians were constantly firing their armored vehicles, the Russians relied on artillery, air strikes and infantry to move forward with the complex terrain of the Kursk region, filled with swamps and soft land, which is not able to withstand heavy equipment during the rainy time.
In addition, North Korean soldiers were thrown into the Kursk region, who broke forward under heavy fire, not knowing modern maneuvers on the battlefield, but demonstrating physical strength and courage:
"In one of the battles, the Ukrainian forces of special operations reflected for eight hours from the waves of North Korean soldiers, they eventually ended ammunition, and they retreated, capturing the prisoner who later died of wounds received."
One of the Armed Forces fighters notes that the North Koreans were everywhere, "they could not be calculated."
The crucial importance for the promotion of Russians was a new type of drone -controlled drone, which is not amenable to Ukrainian electronic obstacles.
"Until the beginning of March, Ukrainian troops could not transfer the equipment to Kursk or from Kursk without falling under the hail of Russian fire, which made it impossible to almost systematic evacuation of the wounded or reinforcements," WSJ writes.
Last weekend, the soldiers who were in the area reported that the leaving ways were being fired and practically not passing for vehicles, and artillery and drones are working to restrain their promotion and give them the opportunity to depart.
Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that there is no surroundings of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region of Russia, the operation of the Armed Forces "in certain areas" of the region is ongoing.
ISW analysts wrote that Russia has accused the Ukrainian military allegedly for war crimes in the Kursk region to disrupt negotiations of a 30-day armistice.
