Published October 3, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been pleading with allies for months to let Ukraine fire Western missiles, including long-range U.S. ATACMS and Britain’s Storm Shadow, deep into Russia.
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SOURCE: www.reuters.com
RELATED: Ukraine’s Best Tanks Invaded Kursk
Russian drones have apparently knocked out at least one of the 20 or so Strv 122 and Leopard 2A6 tanks.
Russian state media capture
Published October 3, 2024
On Aug. 6, a powerful Ukrainian force—a dozen or so 400-person battalions from as many as eight different brigades—invaded Russia’s Kursk Oblast, quickly capturing 400 square miles of the oblast from its unprepared Russian defenders.
It was a risky move by the Ukrainians. In devoting their last well-equipped units to a cross-border assault, they deprived units along the front line in eastern and southern Ukraine of vital reinforcements—a choice that led directly to the Ukrainians losing several key villages and towns to attacking Russians.
Most notable among these losses: the eastern town of Vuhledar, where the battered Ukrainian 72nd Mechanized Brigade had held out against its Russian assailants for two years. The outgunned brigade finally retreated amid heavy bombardment this week.
The Ukrainian general staff in Kyiv shrugged off its losses and not only sustained the invasion of Kursk—it doubled down, launching a second thrust into Russia 20 miles west of the main Kursk salient on Sept. 12.
Here, around the Russian village of Veseloe, the Ukrainian army’s 21st Mechanized Brigade and 225th Assault Battalion, plus supporting units, have been fighting a mobile battle with the local Russian garrison, maneuvering across fields and through treelines to find and exploit gaps in Russian defenses—apparently aiming to roll east and eventually join up with the main salient, thus surrounding any Russian troops left between the Veseloe thrust and the border.
It’s been a tough and chaotic fight for the 21st Mechanized Brigade and 225th Assault Battalion, which have been spotted in Kursk with Swedish-made CV90 fighting vehicles and Swedish- or German-made tanks—either Strv 122s or Leopard 2A6s. These are some of the best vehicles in the Ukrainian inventory.
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SOURCE: www.forbes.com
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