Ukraine’s incursion into Russia: What is Kyiv’s goal? • FRANCE 24 English



Ukraine’s incursion into Russia: What is Kyiv’s goal? • FRANCE 24 English

Two and a half years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv’s troops last week launched a major counter-offensive into Russia’s Kursk region. For more insight, FRANCE 24’s Delano D’Souza is joined by Peter Zalmayev, director of the Eurasia Democracy Intiative. “I see the intention is to try to get entrenched in Russia’s territory in order to use it as a bargaining chip in eventual negotiations with the Russian side”, he said. But “the end goal, we don’t know yet” what it is.
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48 comments
  1. Peter Zalmayev is also a comedian 🙂they dream to swap more than 20% of Ukraine territory hold by Russia against 0,003% of territory they temporary captured in empty villages

  2. Ukraine will loose everything with this operation. Pokrovsk once taken will bring russian army behind the fortifications in Donbass and open the way to the center of Ukraine. Stupid PR thinking.

  3. Laughable. Zero clue about military history and strategy. Several hundreds of prisoners? How about 800,000 Germans surrendering on the eastern front?

  4. What can 10K or 20K Ukrainians do to Russia? Anyone can see Ukraine can't keep whatever territory it had. Zelenskky is just sending these men to their death! Russia is on it's way to take Pokrovsky. It's just a media stunt! This is the only thing the guy said is correct!

  5. The Russian bots are struggling to find a way to claim that losing 1,000 km of Russian territory and having 2,000 Russian soldiers captured is a good thing and all part of the plan.

  6. Fun with Flagg's. White stripe, Blue stripe, White stripe. I tink u will find that after le bountee is claimed on Putin's head, there is a Grand possibilitee that new cuntree's will emurge out ov le current Russian Federation.

  7. There will b no next us election… To survive deep state has to go to war.. Trump is comming.. He will shut down nato.. No way deep state goona trust on Trump.. Big war escalation comming to derail us election prepare yourself…

  8. Simply laughable. Ukraine wanted kursk nuclear power plant. Failed. Ukraine thought Russia would move troops from donbas towards kursk nothing like that happened.
    Ukraine had to deploy all reserves into Kursk .Zelensky to send more troops and equipment into Kursk.
    Ukraine is doomed as war not ending soon

  9. I can tell you that Ukraine most likely do not know the end game themselves, they were most likely surprised how easy it was for them and how easy the Russians ranaway /surrendered, i am convinced that the ukranians are just making it up as they go. Even though i hope that is favours Ukraine somehow, i must be host and say that this can go any way for now.

  10. What a stupid analysis. For sure, Russia will trade 500 sq km with 118000 sq km. It is all propaganda. Ukraine toasted by opening another front. Write my words and talk to me after few weeks. Any country can have incursion into undefended boarder. See what comes next. Propaganda steam already cooling off. Ukraine lost land and no way going to get all back.

  11. Russia as become a stupid country from I was young I taught Russia was a real war country now im disappointed I can't believe Russia is so stupid NATO gonna set up base in RUSSIA

  12. Virtually every story on the Ukraine invasion of Russia, "What is Kiev's Goal" Ukraine hasn't stated what its goal is and commenters are making things up in real time. The propaganda value is obvious, but is there a political or military goal? Maybe there is no military or political goal. Let's fight and then we'll see what happens?

  13. A professor at mit University researched at the main public libraries in San Francisco, New York and LA, to gather evidence that Americans watch less foreign films today because of Netflix, HBOMax, Hulu, and other cable stations. Her contention though controversial at mit, deserves consideration. She looked at copies of newspapers from the 1970's, on microfiche and the evidence indicates Americans did watch more foreign films in the 1970's. In San Francisco looking at the SF Examiner on microfiche, she saw that in November 3,  1974, for example, the SF Examiner in the movie listings showed half the movies in the theatres, in San Francisco were European films, mostly from France and Italy.

    Moreover, when she looked at a current SF Chronicle movie listing not more than 10 percent of the movies showing were foreign films. Interesting Americans seem to have lost their appetite for Italian films but not on vacations to Italy! There were no Italian films being shown in the SF Chronicle Movie guide listings, recently.  The word Paparazzo comes from the 1960 film "La Dolce Vita" directed by Italian Director Federico Fellini, and is the eponym of the word paparazzi, Americans call the photographers who take photos of their celebrities, paparazzi How ungrateful, that Americans don't even watch Italian movies! In fact the mit professor was astounded how Italian movies are no longer shown in America anymore. Italian films are no longer distributed in America, and America has betrayed one of their closest allies, they claim to have liberated in ww2. I have to stand with Italy on this. Did America really liberate Italy or was it all political theater? Italians didn't understand what the Americans were going to do to them after they liberated them. Steal their film culture, and claim it as their own. What do Americans have against Italian movies? They can't make money off of Italian movies, that's what they have against Italian movies, Americans want everyone to watch their movies, it's really greed that Americans watch less Italian movies today. Americans before weren't as greedy, and didn't mind sharing the wealth with Italy. Blame Netflix, in fact I don't watch Netflix. If I was the Prime Minister of Italy, I would close the American Embassy in Italy, in protest and expel all American diplomats out of Italy. I would also ban American tourists from Italy.

  14. It s all deception,, the real goal is ukranian wants to control europe by taking gas terminal from russia to europe. In other word,, ukranian is blackmailing europe to give eveerything they want

  15. Well the level of propaganda is at a very dangerous level. Now NATO troops are alongside the Ukrainians, and they are attempting to escalate the war creating casualties.
    This is not making the peace talks go very well at this point in fact trying to keep Russia from killing everyone who crossed the border is not easy right now. In spite of how this works into our economic plan for the region. So we are getting the KGB there for the talks to diffuse the situation. People have to understand that public opinion in Russia is so important like it would be in your country, that if necessary, they will all be killed in a day.
    So far cooler heads have prevailed but this is not something nice to watch.
    It's a delicate situation for Zelensky he needs to lock up the NATO troops fighting in his brigades there and stop this propaganda frenzy.
    I wish I could tell you more but right now you see with this going on, I can't tell you more.
    So French secret service needs to contact the CIA be invited to the Kursk region with Mi6.
    So that leaders have proper communications coming to them from trusted sources.

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