“Chernyk believes that the Russians will now try by all means to oust the ZSU from the Kursk region.”, — write: www.unian.ua
Chernyk believes that the Russians will now try by all means to oust the ZSU from the Kursk region.
During the operation in Kurshchyna, Ukrainian forces seized a fairly large bridgehead / photo UNIAN, Vyacheslav RatynskyiIf the Armed Forces hold Kurshchyna during the winter, it will be not only a military, but also a great geopolitical victory for Ukraine. This was said by a military expert, Colonel Petro Chernyk, in an interview with Armiya TV.He noted that during the operation in Kurshchyna, Ukrainian forces captured a fairly large bridgehead – more than 1,000 square kilometers. According to Chernyk, our troops are currently being fortified there, most likely.
“For the Russians, this is a significant challenge, first of all, in the political part. Putin said that it was impossible for someone to come to their territory and carry out hostilities. But it became possible,” Chernyk explained.
He noted that the Russians will now use all means to dislodge the ZSU from the Kursk region.
“If we manage to keep the bridgehead during the fall and through the winter, it will be a huge not only military, but also a geopolitical victory for us,” Chernyk said.
The expert also noted that the Kursk operation is directly related to the events taking place on the eastern bridgeheads of the Ukrainian front.
“The enemy still had to divert a large part of its forces and means. There is such a thing as a combat army reserve, which is 10% to 15% of the total number of troops participating in the war. If the enemy has up to 600,000 troops along the demarcation line , then their reserve should be 60-80 thousand, which they would really divert to Kurshchyna. But there is one nuance – preemptive extermination. We exterminate 32-36 thousand of them per month, and they can put 32-34 thousand, no more. And 2 thousand every six months is a lot. And at the moment, the enemy has enormous problems with spare resources,” said Chernyk.
Therefore, according to him, at the moment the Russians are forced to withdraw troops from one or another area for the Kursk operation.
“And this gives us a chance to stabilize the front. And in the part of Pokrovsk, we definitely stabilized it,” Chernyk emphasized.
He also noted that the enemy went to the Kurakhiv direction after he realized that serious forces and means were concentrated on the Pokrovsky direction from our side, which could not break through our defenses. And therefore they shifted the accents.
At the same time, Chernyk emphasized that the goal of the Russians has not changed and will not change – they will do everything possible and even impossible to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
“It is very important for us to hold out until the rains, because then this movement will stop, we will switch to a counter-battery fight,” he added.
The operation in the Kursk region – detailsAs UNIAN reported, the Russian Federation gathered 35,000 to 60,000 troops to retake the Kursk region. Such figures were announced by a military observer, a reserve major and a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Oleksii Hetman.
Earlier, Forbes reported that the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, ordered the recapture of Kursk Oblast by the Armed Forces of Ukraine by October 1. The Russians have already moved to counterattacks in Kurshchyna. Currently, the situation in the region is unstable.
According to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, “the Russians have started counteroffensive actions, this is according to our Ukrainian plan.”
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