Ukraine’s Kursk Invasion Stalls as Russian Forces Advance Towards Pokrovsk in Donbas | Gen GD Bakshi



Ukraine’s Kursk Invasion Stalls as Russian Forces Advance Towards Pokrovsk in Donbas | Gen GD Bakshi

The summer months have seen significant developments in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine launched a surprise offensive on August 6, advancing into Russia’s Kursk region with the intent of forcing a redeployment of Russian troops from the Donetsk front. Despite initially catching Moscow off guard, the Ukrainian incursion has not achieved its strategic objective. Russian forces continue their relentless advance in the Donbas region, specifically towards Pokrovsk, a crucial logistical hub for Ukrainian defenses.

In this video, Maj Gen GD Bakshi (Retd) sheds light on Ukraine’s advance in Kursk and how it has slowed significantly, failing to draw Russian forces away from their offensive in Donbas. Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the Ukrainian attack as ineffective, stating that it did not disrupt Russia’s operations in Donetsk. The British Ministry of Defence warns that the fall of Pokrovsk would complicate Ukraine’s supply lines and weaken its defensive capabilities in the region.

As Russian troops close in on Pokrovsk, less than 10 kilometers away, the battle for control of this strategic town is expected to intensify. The loss of Pokrovsk would be a significant setback for Ukraine, impacting its ability to maintain a robust defense in the Donbas region.

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45 comments
  1. and then there are noobs in western msm commenting on what happened to 3 days. They are clearly not understanding or simply think because they are in nato they are safe.

    I tell you americans will abandon europe if it escalates, the only thing americans will be doing is supply arms to europe and european will be the next ones to be used, exploited by warmonger usa for american hegemony, dominance, interests.

    these people have watched fantasy movies like top gun, captain america and drawn a line, fantasise that their military equipments are the best, and highly advanced.

    This alone with the Russophobia vaccination from birth and constant narrative in msm of how great they are and how centuries old Russia is. If escalation comes to reality europe is no their own, americans wont be helping rest of the world wont be helping as rest of the world has already and clearly said this is war started by usa, europe and this war stays inside the europe region. We are not going to be part of it.

  2. GOD BLESS YOU ABUNDANTLY. MAXIMUM RESPECT ❤FOR MILTARY EXPERTICE ..
    INTELLIGENT MILTARY EXPERT WITH FULL OF EXPERIENCE…
    GOSPEL TRUTH..
    FACTS NOT FICTIONS ❤
    THE WORLD NEEDS 🌎 WISE MILTARY EXPERT LIKE YOU SIR ..

  3. Does Russia arm India in a conflict with China or not??? An anti-west mind will never tell the truth. Is it possible for Germany to protect itself without NATO or America??? How self-sufficient is India in its defense???

  4. Maybe the Russians knew and let it happen. If it was so much of a surprise why didn't they actually take the nuclear power plant and the Russians didn't move troops away. The Ukrainians and the West are just Dumb

  5. Truth explained truthfully …. behind most conflicts / wars there is usually USA / NATO the source of ignition.

    The UN member nations are receiving too much aid from USA / NATO nations and are compromised so they have been failing for decades to deliver justice.

    Any normal person can see this, all most can do it share thoughts on social media, even this the West is persecuting its own citizens silencing and trying to put them in prison.

    Same as they did to Assange, Manning and Snowden. Nothing seems to be getting in their way, they have learnt nothing from their choice to illegally destroy Iraq, Libya and Syria.

  6. I hope that the Indian army and politics are led by much smarter people than this rediculous. And along the way he told a bunch of lies. If less than 5,000 Ukrainian soldiers participate in the entire operation, how can 3-5-10,000 be killed or wounded???

  7. These tactical insights are very very valuable and right on target.
    As a USMC operations officer with both urban and desert warfare experience and training I could not agree with you more.
    As the Russians experience ECW over-watch it requires that the ground units move forward in a very conventional door to door manner. It is old school and expensive but the only other country that does this style of warfare as a primary approach is China. The USA fights over the horizon and far away so we can not typically mass in the numbers required to fight in this manner as our primary approach. We tend to believe in agility and high tech (look at out reformulation of our South China Sea defense). We spend way more high tech dollars, use fewer people and try to destroy less infrastructure (unless we have to). The IDF Iron Dome is an example of this approach in a defensive posture. But guess what, when your tech fails or is neutralized or over matched it always comes down to the infantry and armor going inch by inch.

    Desert Storm may be the last time a high tech Western force can soften the enemy to make the final assault a fast attack where the enemy surrenders in droves because they have been pounded into submission and really didn't want to fight. Today the fighters are duped into thinking it is as existential the end of the world if you do not die or win so they will fight too long (Hamas). They have no idea that they may be dying for media points and political currency. In the age of open source and cheap tech asymmetry will defeat superior spending and prolong conflict.

    Russia will win in the Ukraine because the Ukraine will run out of Ukrainian blood to shed and US dollars to be made and the world really doesn't care to fight with or for them. It was never existential, the Ukraine could have survived if they had taken the initial peace deal offered at the start of recent hostilities (as you noted). It is now existential at the hands of Ukrainian leaders who are buying villas as they romp around pretending they know how to fight a war.
    Where the West has High Tech superiority the Russians will use low tech indirect fire weapons, flatten the opposition and roll over them with frontal assault just like they have in every war, slow, unrelenting and expensive. Where there is tech parity or even some advantage Russia will be strategic and destroy at will. Low spend with greater mass will often win out unless you want to go WMD.

    The only real way to stand up to them is face to face, and that will be a fight the West does not want to have. A proxy war is always sub-optimal and just gets lots of people killed for Pyrrhic show until the sponsors get kicked out: see Vietnam, The Middle East, Afghanistan and now Ukraine…..
    Great job of analysis (you don't need the background music your voice is better 🙂 ) Be well…

  8. Todsy international independent news outlets have been with ukraine troops advancing into russia deeper. Russian troops still retreating and surrendering this is FACT not russian state owned lies. How embarrassing that putin has to lie and give fake and false news

  9. because it was planned, satellite surveilllance is periodic, as is aerial surveillance which was sparse there, hence the attack. there is nothing there which is why it was left next to empty.

    no units were moved from the 700km frontline by Russia which is why it took a day to halt them with artillery and air power before the spare ground forces moved in. an attack on Russia means they can use artillery conscripts.

    It was a seagull mission that failed to reach its objective and so they are trapped there being ground to meat.

  10. What happens when something or someone wander too far away from the source of his strength: it stops being the hunter and becomes the hunted. any commonsense people would know that.
    That's what happen to a "woke mind". The woke ideology exalts the appearance of things and reality and forgets about the core, the essentials, the substance of it: than reality hits back ;pain and suffering ensue.

  11. Someone wrote to Youtube “If you ever feel USA useless, remember it took 20 years, 3 trillion dollars & 4 US presidents to replace the Taliban with the Taliban with over 2 trillions dollars of latest US weapons for free. Kids in the USA are taught it as US victory”

  12. 8:50 You left out that the Russians would administer "fair" elections in the occupied territories before leaving, Ukraine had to disarm itself completely, and then be a neutral with no defense agreements with anyone.
    No one would ever agree to that, ever….

  13. @gunnyoorah1846

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    WAKE UP …. DANG. IT IS BLACK-ROCK AND THE SATANIC . Who want the uk soil and land. these Monsters control binden/nazi/uk/ue/nato governments. WE THE FEW … ARE FIGHTING AND WHITE HATS…OORAH!!

  14. Here we go again, bombastic Bakshi, spouting anti Ukraine, pro Putin propaganda. Fact is Russia is shall-shocked by the Kursk invasion and occupation by Ukraine. Modi has no war strategy left, his nuclear Sabre rattling is proven impotent. Putin , by estimates of military experts is on shaky grounds to even survive the internal rebel by oligarchs…

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