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| Kursk 2.1: War correspondent Kots: Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers may again try to stake out a bridgehead near Kursk |
| 2025-05-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) may again try to penetrate the Kursk region in order to "stake out" a bridgehead there. This was stated by war correspondent Alexander Kots in his Telegram channel, describing three possible scenarios for the development of events in the region. The first scenario assumes a repeat of the situation similar to the operations in Popovka and Demidovka in the Belgorod region, where the attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were pointless. However, in this case, the Russian Armed Forces will have to pull additional forces into the area of ​​the attacks. Another scenario of the war correspondent assumes an attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to "stake out" a bridgehead in the Kursk region by means of two converging strikes from the south and southwest. In this case, according to the war correspondent, these strikes will converge in the Glushkovo area. "Well, that's if it's smooth on paper. In reality, the enemy had already tried to go through Novy Put to Veseloye to organize a strike in our rear, when we began to actively liberate the Korenevsky district last fall. For a short time, they even had success in advancing, but later everything ended the same way as in Popovka and Demidovka. They were driven out," Kots specified. The last and most unlikely option, Kots believes, is to use attacks on Tetkino and Novy Put as a diversionary maneuver, while the main blow is delivered to another zone. "The main task is still to slow down the formation of our security zone in the Sumy region, and not to bite off a piece of our territory comparable to last year. But they will try it on a fool, of course. Especially on May 9," the war correspondent summed up, emphasizing that the first option is the most realistic. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on April 26, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General Valery Gerasimov, reported to President Vladimir Putin on the completion of the operation to liberate the Kursk region. Thus, the attempt of the Kiev regime to invade Russian territory and create a bridgehead on it has completely failed. Gerasimov also specified that since August 2024, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost about 76 thousand fighters near Kursk. |
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