- Sputnik International, 1920, 25.02.2022
Russia's Special Operation in Ukraine
On February 24, 2022 Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev's forces.

Kursk Attack ‘Gamble’ That Could Further Worsen Ukraine’s Dire Straits – Report

© AP Photo / Andriy AndriyenkoUkrainian servicemen of the 141st brigade take position at the front line in Zaporozhye region on June 18, 2024.
Ukrainian servicemen of the 141st brigade take position at the front line in Zaporozhye region on June 18, 2024.  - Sputnik International, 1920, 16.08.2024
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The AP news agency earlier reported that despite the Kiev regime’s aggression in the Kursk region, Russia’s "overall strategic advantage" across the front lines has remained "intact."
The attack on Russia's Kursk region prompted the Ukrainian military to withdraw troops and weapons from its "already-creaking front lines to pull it off," the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported.
Ukraine is redeploying troops from the eastern front to Russia’s Kursk region, "leaving units even more stretched," in a "gamble that risks making a bad situation [for Kiev] worse," the newspaper argued.
A Russian serviceman of the Central military district air defence unit shoots a rifle at an air target in the Avdeyevka area of the frontline of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, Russia - Sputnik International, 1920, 16.08.2024
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Ukrainian military commanders don’t have enough people to do their job properly, with exhausted soldiers "spending longer in the trenches because there are no fresh troops to replace them," the WSJ cited one commander as saying.
The situation for Ukrainian troops has become "more punishing through the summer—with no sign that Russian forces are easing up" since the Kursk aggression began on August 6, according to the WSJ.

"Sending [Ukrainian] troops to Kursk [region] means taking them away from the Donetsk region. Troops in the east said they weren’t yet convinced that sending Ukrainian troops into Russia would pay off," the newspaper concluded.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost about 2,640 soldiers and 37 tanks since the start of what President Vladimir Putin described as a large-scale provocation by the Kiev regime in Kursk.
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