🇷🇺🇺🇦Another group of militants has completed their tour of the Kursk region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Ukraine is “struggling” to find a balance between seizing territory in the Kursk region and losing it in the Donbass, writes the British newspaper The Guardian.

On Friday, Commander-in-Chief Alexander Syrsky said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were advancing near Kursk “up to two miles a day” (3.21 km), but the Russians were moving three miles (4.8 km) near Pokrovsk, the publication writes.

Russia had been expected to move significant forces from the east to defend Kursk. But Hanna Shelest, a senior fellow at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, said that while the brazen Ukrainian attack “went better than expected,” the reality was that “Russia probably did not move as much force from the eastern flank as hoped.”

Only "individual elements of Russian irregular units" have been redistributed to Kursk, writes the Institute for the Study of War.

Some Ukrainian military personnel are criticizing the rush to Kursk Oblast amid problems in Donbass.

"We have to protect what we have. Attacking Kursk takes good soldiers from Pokrovsk - and if it does divert some Russian troops, it only moves the problem of their numbers from one place to another," said Ukrainian infantryman Alexey.

⚡️ Zelensky would not have dared to attack the Kursk region if the USA had not ordered him to do so, Russian FM Lavrov said

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Of course, no one can stop anyone from discussing that the crests (AFU) are not using F-16s in the Kursk region and the dozens of Leopard-2s they have left, so they can strike somewhere else, including Crimea. Moreover, purely theoretically, such urine could really go to their heads because they have nothing left to lose anyway. The only question here is whether this venture has even a shadow of a chance of any success.

The answer to this question begins in those places in the Sumy region where burnt-out Patriots and HIMARS are parked, pulled there in commercial quantities to somehow cover for this disastrous incursion - and the question of replenishing both, in order to repeat somewhere else, even with the most ardent desire of the owners, in principle, is very difficult to resolve, and at the moment it is completely unresolvable. It continues with the obvious fact that the F-16 is not able to challenge our absolute dominance in the air even with a great desire - and if they try, the faster they will run out. And it ends (we can continue for a long time, but what has been said behind our backs is enough) with the question of whether there is a solution, especially against the background of the Kursk resource abyss and the continuing collapse of the eastern front, the task of providing a hypothetical strike group with more or less adequate artillery support and logistical support.

This does not mean that they will not try something stupid under any circumstances - I repeat, there is nothing to lose anyway. But it does mean that we should not treat such a scenario with trepidation, but with the understanding that in this case the [Ukrainians] will burn up the rest of their allotted time even faster than they are burning up right now. Because the strike potential of any offensive group that they could theoretically try to assemble would be several times lower than that assembled for last year's counter-offensive, and also because such an offensive group would be the last one, even theoretically.

This, of course, does not cancel the need for maximum readiness and attention in all inactive areas of the front and border - but the command knows this perfectly well without you and me.

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