From @rnintel on Telegram: “Russia’s counteroffensive in the Kursk region: Russia has recaptured 519.8 sqkm of area. Ukraine still holds 559.3 sqkm”
They achieved nothing from what I’ve heard, the city they’ve Occupied wasretaken quite quickly and they didn’t even got close to the nuclear powerplant nor the gas distribution hub nearby and were mostly fighting in a forest or something like it
from what I’ve heard, the city they’ve Occupied wasretaken quite quickly
Not quite.
The only locality they managed to take (at least one larger than just a village with a couple of houses) is Sudzha, which is not a city but a small town of around 6000 inhabitants less than 10 km from the border. They went there and made a bunch of videos of themselves looting and destroying the local supermarket. That was about the extent of what they managed to achieve.
They are still holding onto that town, and the latest news i’m reading is that they are currently in a panic trying to hastily dig trenches and fortify it for fears of an imminent Russian breakthrough which may be occurring as we speak.
This town is all they have to show for the whole incursion, and they sacrificed a lot of their most elite brigades and most valuable equipment, so losing it would be very bad for PR and for morale. Especially now that their gamble hoping this would divert Russian forces from elsewhere didn’t pay off, instead they just diverted their own best forces and the pace of Russian advances has accelerated all across the Donbass as a result.
They got nowhere close to either the city of Kursk itself or the nuclear power plant that they were aiming at, you can’t even see them on this map.
They also tried a second incursion around a week or two ago a bit further west to try and outflank the Russian counterattack but apparently that plan failed catastrophically and today i read that it was finally called off.
