The Ukrainians are advancing towards the E38 motorway and creating two lines. The Russians respond with "Carpet Bombing" | The security crisis in Kursk grows as Ukrainian troops continue to advance despite their losses. Ukraine has taken control of 27 settlements in the Kursk region with the depth of the Ukrainian invasion reaching as much as 30 km in some places. The Ukrainian invasion force is now trying to do something that seemed impossible: to take control of the E38 motorway passing through the key town of Lgov. Driving out the Ukrainian forces will not be an easy task for the Russians as the Ukrainians are manning the section of the "Surovykin" fortification line they have captured and are also constructing another line of defense while controlling the surrounding hills.
As for Russia, [she] so far, mobilized only some units from the 'North' force. Ukrainian analysts believe Moscow will mobilize reserves from the Moscow, Voronezh, and Rostov regions. There are no signs yet that it is withdrawing troops from Donbas. However, the absence of a rapid reaction shows that the Russian forces and the Russian generals were by surprise. Russia failed to identify the Ukrainian offensive and failed to interpret the concentration of Ukrainian troops in Sumy as an offensive maneuver.
The situation in Kursk: Rybar admits that the crisis is deepening in the Kursk region. He says that "despite the efforts of the Russian forces to stop the advance of the Ukrainian groups, the scale of the crisis is growing: unfortunately, the tactics of the Ukrainian troops, with an emphasis on rapid infiltration, bypassing fortified areas and maximum expansion of the zone of disruption without consolidation in the first stage, are outstripping the counter-attack capabilities of the Russian army. In the Sunza region, the zone of control of Ukrainian formations was extended to 30 km along the Diakonovo-Sunza road. Points of resistance of the Russian army are being cut off and bypassed. After capturing Kazachya Loknya in the north, and the settlements of Mirny and Bondarevka in the south, Ukrainian soldiers entered Martynovka. Then they also occupied the settlement of Kruglik.
At the same time, a group of Ukrainians moved further along the highway, reaching Bolshoye Soldatskoye. There are reports of fighting taking place along the highway. Also, fierce fighting is taking place in the surrounding settlements 15 kilometers south of Lgov. In the Korenevsky area, the Ukrainians are trying to take over the administrative center. Fighting is taking place at the entrance to Korenevo while Ukrainian units are trying to take the settlements of Olgovka and Kremeny. The Ukrainians are trying to break into the Rylsk - Lgov highway to expand the scale of the operational crisis of the Russian armed forces.
Heavy bombing of Ukrainian forces: Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Ukrainian raid on the Russian Kursk region is a great challenge.
💬 "The Kyiv regime has launched another great provocation," Putin told members of the Russian government about the attack in Kursk, then added that Ukrainian forces were conducting "indiscriminate bombing of civilian" targets in the Russian region. ● "Air strikes, missile forces, artillery fire and actions of units covering the state border (...) prevented the enemy from advancing deep into the territory of the Russian Federation". ● "The battle will be fierce," said Yuri Podolyaka, an influential Ukrainian-born pro-Russian military blogger. ● "Undoubtedly it will not end soon. Even if the enemy fails to make progress (and no one can guarantee it at the moment), there will be artillery and drone attacks. And in large numbers," Podolyaka said. (DeepL + Grammarly) [...]
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