• Hubi@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Let’s hope that they used the time to improve the fortifications along their border. A retreat from Kursk would suck on a strategic level but it might free up a large number of their elite forces that are currently deployed there. Insanely impressive that they’ve been holding on for so long.

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 hours ago

      Still sucks, because I believe the idea was to hold the territory long enough to exchange it for the parts of Ukraine stolen by Russia during peace negotiations. Amazing the brave fighters have held out so long.

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      1 day ago

      The question is what will happen with the resources on the area after ukraine retreats. Will russian keep pushing into sumy? Will they distribute forces through the other fronts?

      I guess that Koreans will stay as a defensive force in the area.

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        I have been following the war in Ukraine since the beginning. From the look of it, I think Russia ran out of steam. Their offensives slowed down in Kharkiv and even on eastern Ukraine. These areas would be reinforced after Kursk is done and I doubt Sumy will be attacked. In some sense, the attack in Kursk worked a little bit to draw Russian resources away from other fronts.