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"The Ukrainian advance into Russia’s Kursk oblast took almost everyone by
surprise. Perhaps not the Russians stationed on the border, who reportedly
tried to warn of a Ukrainian troop buildup, but the rest of us who watch the
conflict closely did not think the Ukrainian army – under increasingly severe
pressure in Donetsk oblast further south – had the spare manpower and kit to
launch this operation.
So far it has been successful, advancing up to 30km in some directions and
creating a salient inside Russia some 40km wide. An area of about 800 square
kilometres has been seized so far according to the Institute for the Study of
War in the greatest loss of western Russian territory since April 1944. How
have the Ukrainians done it, and what might happen next?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
