“Among the purposes of Kursk Operation, he calls the interception of the initiative on the battlefield and delaying Russian reserves”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“American intelligence has all the information. They have satellites. Intelligence knows for sure that we have no environment. Intelligence is subject to the President. Perhaps he speaks to his electorate to present some of his decisions more logical, for example, to surrender the Ukrainian territories or to change some territories: here, I saved the soldier, so I have the right to negotiate something, ”Roman Kostenko said.
Among the goals of the Kursk operation, he calls the interception of the initiative on the battlefield and delaying Russian reserves.
“The capture of part of the Kursk region was a strategic victory for Ukraine. Also delaying Russia’s large reserves and keeping them in this direction, raising the moral spirit. And then we have to take our reserves and try to intercept the initiative somewhere in the other direction of the Russian-Ukrainian border, ”the People’s Deputy said.
US President Donald Trump declared in the evening of March 17 in Washington that his appeal to Russia on the fate of Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation helped the military of the Armed Forces. Trump said he “managed to persuade” the Russian Federation to “do nothing” about the Armed Forces in Kursk.
The American newspaper The New York Times reported at the end of last week that Ukrainian troops probably retreated from almost the entire territory of the Kursk region of Russia. The publication reminds that in the midst of the offensive, Ukrainian troops controlled about 500 square miles of Russian territory, and by Sunday, March 16, according to Passa Parinnin, a military analyst from the Finnish Blessed Gird Group group, based in Finland, they kept a narrow strip along the Russian-Ukrainian border.
US President Donald Trump, talking on March 14, about the negotiations of the US side with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that “thousands” of the Ukrainian military were allegedly in a “full and very bad and vulnerable position.”
Putin reacted on March 14 to Trump’s call, stating “that in the event of weapons and capturing them (Armed Forces servicemen – ed.) Life and decent treatment will be guaranteed in accordance with the rules of international law and the law of the Russian Federation. ”
On March 15, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the Ukrainian side “has a presence in the Kursk region, and statements about the environment of Ukrainian troops there are another Putin’s lies.”
Also, according to Zelensky, the operation of the Ukrainian military in Kurshchyna in Russia fulfilled its task: to delay Russian forces from other directions, in particular from the Pokrovsk Donetsk region, from Kharkiv direction and from Sumy.