Moscow’s counterattack has killed and wounded thousands and the overstretched Ukrainians have lost more than 40% of the 984 square kilometres they seized in August
During a funeral ceremony in Irpin, the Kyiv region of Ukraine, on Nov. 21, serviceman Roman bids farewell to a comrade from the 47th Brigade - Serhii Solovyov - who was killed during fighting with Russian Forces in Kursk.Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrainian troops are bloodied and demoralized by the rising risk of defeat in Kursk, a region some want to hold at all costs while others question the value of having gone in at all.
“We have, as they say, hit a hornet’s nest. We have stirred up another hot spot,” said Stepan Lutsiv, a major in the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade.A Ukrainian armoured vehicle drives towards Russia's Kursk region during their shock offensive into Russia in August, 2024. Five months on, Moscow’s counterattack has killed and wounded thousands and Ukrainian troops are facing the rising risk of defeat in Kursk.
Some front-line commanders said conditions are tough, morale is low and troops are questioning command decisions, even the very purpose of occupying Kursk. “Those people who stand until the end are ending up MIA,” he said. He said he also knows of at least 20 Ukrainian soldiers whose bodies had been abandoned over the last four months because the battles were too intense to evacuate them without more casualties.A Ukrainian army vehicle passes through the destroyed Russian border post at the Sudzha crossing with Ukraine in Kursk region of Russia, in August, 2024.
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