Ukraine’s Kursk offensive diverted thousands of Russian troops, says Zelensky • FRANCE 24 English



Ukraine’s Kursk offensive diverted thousands of Russian troops, says Zelensky • FRANCE 24 English

Ukraine’s offensive into the Russian border region of Kursk diverted around 40,000 Russian troops away from the frontline, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday. Kyiv launched its Kursk offensive on August 6 in a bid to pull Moscow’s forces away from eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army has captured a string of villages in recent months.
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40 comments
  1. why do you keep telling lies. the kursk offensive ranks as one of the most stupid operations in the history of war. yet you still report it as a victory. ukraine troops are cut off from the supply routes and are sitting ducks, up to 15000 have already been killed and billions of pounds worth of nato equipment has been destroyed. they should allow the british to plan more operations and this war will be over in weeks. nato are sheep russians are bears.

  2. Logic tells me that if Russia didn't redeploy troops to Kursk, it means it is taking Ukraine's territory much easier because Ukraine's troops is in Kursk, carrying out Zelensky's "Victory Plan". If Zelensky can win territory in Kersk as well as winning in Ukraine, then obviously Zelensky's magic knows no bound !

  3. In the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 15,300 troops, 124 tanks, 56 infantry fighting vehicles, 93 armored personnel carriers, 780 armored combat vehicles, 471 vehicles, 115 artillery pieces, 28 multiple rocket launchers, including seven HIMARS and six MLRS manufactured by the United States, 8 anti-aircraft missile launchers, four transport vehicles-charging machines, 29 electronic warfare stations, 7 counter-battery radars, two air defense radars, 15 units of engineering equipment, of which 9 engineering barrier vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearance unit.

  4. We cannot argue with you, the god and saviour of Europe. But we are confused about why Russia is still gaining grounds in Dumbas with less soldiers? Does that mean their weapons are superior to western weapons?

  5. You guys are living in a fantasy world – wishful thinking😂😂yet they have lost lands faster than they ever did in this year. They want to use that to cover up for the losses of men, land and weapons in the Kursk direction.

  6. You're kidding right even if let's say Russia diverted 40,000 soldiers to Kursk front that's still a tiny peck in the Russian army. Meanwhile Ukraine has lost more than 10,000 men in Kursk and many pieces of western armour had been lost which would have been vital in Donbass. Russia is still gaining ground in Donbass because Russia doesn't have manpower problems but Ukraine does have. Russians are in no hurry to take back a few border villages from Ukraine that are of no Strategic value and are actually happy because it actually ties up a lot of Ukrainian soldiers that would have been useful in Donbass

  7. A lie. AFU actually outnumbers RU in the Sumy sector (which includes the Kursk incursion). There are many, many sites and channels that very accurately keep track of where each sides units are. Of course they do not know how many men are actually still alive in each unit, but by counting brigades and battalions they can get a roughly accurate measure. In fact, over almost three years now, if three or four of those blogger sites give numbers that are roughly the same, that is more believable than anything you'll see reported by Governments or in Western Media.

  8. If I wanted to hear what Zensky "said" I would listen to Zensky. Your parroting the rhetoric of a Country in a conflict. This is not news nor is it information DW News.
    Stop abusing YT disk space with repetitive nonsense..

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