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Op dinsdag 13 augustus 2024 22:44 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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Waarom zou Rusland troepen van het front naar Kursk dirigeren? Het is veel eenvoudiger om troepen die in Rusland zitten die kant op te sturen De Russen zijn ondertussen ook gewoon aan het doorknokken dus het lijkt er niet echt op dat ze verplaatst worden.

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Russia Moves Some Troops From Ukraine to Fight Incursion, Kyiv and U.S. Say

Ukraine hopes that such a move will relieve pressure on frontline units. But Moscow appears reluctant to withdraw troops from eastern Ukraine, where it has been steadily advancing.

Moscow has begun withdrawing some troops from Ukraine in an effort to repel Kyiv’s offensive into western Russia, according to United States and Ukrainian officials, but it remains unclear what impact, if any, that might have on the overall battlefield.

Dmytro Lykhovii, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Army, told the Ukrainian news media on Tuesday that Russia had moved some units from the southern Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro to other areas of the fighting. That included the Kursk region of western Russia, where the incursion has taken place, he said.

A United States official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters, said that Russia had pulled out small numbers of troops from Ukraine, but he did not specify their location or the number of soldiers involved.

Analysts say that one of the goals of the Ukrainian offensive is to draw Russian forces away from the front lines in Ukraine to relieve Ukrainian troops struggling to push back relentless Russian attacks. But it is too early to say whether the latest Russian troop movements will allow that to happen, they say.

In particular, there is little sign that Moscow has redeployed troops from eastern Ukraine, where Russia has been steadily advancing in recent months. Instead, the Russian Army appears to have sent in reinforcements drawn mainly from less combat-ready units based in northern Russia and Ukraine, military experts say.

“The Russian strategy is to avoid drawing from units in the Donetsk direction as much as possible,” said Serhii Kuzan, the chairman of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, an independent research group, referring to the region in eastern Ukraine that is on the front line. “The Russians are reluctant to do this, because it would jeopardize all the gains of their summer offensive campaign.”

The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said that the Russian authorities “appear to be largely relying on Russian conscripts, and elements of some regular and irregular military units pulled from less critical sectors of the front line to address the ongoing Ukrainian incursion.”

Lithuania’s defense minister, Laurynas Kasciunas, said on Tuesday that Russia was moving troops from its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad to Kursk. Mr. Kasciunas was visiting President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

Ukrainian military officials said that Russian assaults in the Donetsk region had continued unabated over the past week, despite the new Ukrainian offensive. Russian troops have continued to slowly advance in or toward the frontline towns of Chasiv Yar, Niu York, Pokrovsk and Toretsk, they say.

Oleksandr Bordiian, a spokesman for the 32nd Separate Mechanize Brigade, which is fighting near Toretsk, told the Ukrainian news media on Tuesday that Ukraine’s attacks in the Kursk region “have not yet had any impact on the density of assaults and shelling in our direction.” A medic fighting in another brigade near Toretsk also said on Wednesday that there had been no changes on that section of the front.

Military analysts say that Kyiv will need to expand or hold onto its gains in western Russia long enough to compel Moscow to divert significant forces from the battlefield in Ukraine.

Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s top commander, told Mr. Zelensky on Wednesday that Ukrainian troops had advanced up to two kilometers, about 1.2 miles, in the Kursk region since the beginning of the day. He also said that more than 100 Russian soldiers had been captured during the day. His claims could not be independently verified.

After quick successes in the early days of the offensive, the Ukrainian advances in the Kursk region appear to have slowed, according to maps of the battlefield compiled by independent analysts. Ukrainian troops are now attacking to the north and south of the bulge they have carved out into Russian territory, but are facing more Russian resistance, the maps show.

Emil Kastehelmi, an analyst with the Finland-based Black Bird Group, which scrutinizes footage from the battlefield, said on Tuesday evening that an attack by Ukrainian troops on Giri, a village southeast of the initial Ukrainian assault and about eight miles from the Ukrainian border, had likely been repelled. “They suffered significant losses and likely had to retreat,” Mr. Kastehelmi wrote on social media.

The Ukrainian raids appear to have a strategy of probing and destabilizing Russian defenses. After several days of Ukrainian attacks on the Belgorod region, which borders the Kursk region, the regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, declared a state of emergency on Wednesday.

Whether Ukraine can continue to conduct these raids depends on the number of troops it can commit to the fight. Its forces are stretched thin, and Kyiv has already sent into the offensive experienced units that were pulled from the front lines in eastern Ukraine.

France’s defense ministry said on Monday that Kyiv’s forces “appear to have reduced the pace of their initial advance, but are consolidating their positions” in the territory they have already captured.

But holding on to a position that can be attacked from multiple sides will prove difficult, analysts say. Mr. Kuzan, of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, also noted that any static Ukrainian position would be exposed to Russian airstrikes. Such a dynamic, he said, “immediately invites the use of aviation, guided bombs and ballistic missiles.”

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Op woensdag 14 augustus 2024 22:09 schreef Anton91 het volgende:
Je ziet echt ontzettend veel filmpjes van POW's de laatste tijd. Het zullen er misschien niet zoveel zijn met gevechtervaring, maar wel ontzettend nuttig voor Oekra�ne om gevangen te ruilen.

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Op woensdag 14 augustus 2024 22:19 schreef AchJa het volgende:

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De enige club die het over "het front" heeft is ISW, de rest heeft het over Oekraine in het algemeen.

Maar goed, ik ben ondertussen enorm klaar met dat "welles/nietes" geneuzel hier.