Ukraine’s new Kursk push brings minor gains, raising concerns over lim

Details: Written by: Asami Terajima; 13.Jan; Hits: 8

Since the new push in Russia’s Kursk Oblast in early January, Ukraine has made small gains and managed to capture the first North Korean prisoners of war in the area but experts have raised concerns about Kyiv’s use of limited resources while fierce battles rage elsewhere.The assessment comes as more – but still limited – open-source data emerges from the week-old Ukrainian operation around the village of Berdin in what experts believe was Kyiv’s tactic to take advantage of a weakened Russian defense in the area.

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The Ukrainian military has so far remained silent on the operation, though reporting on Jan. 5 that the most intense fighting across the front line was happening in Kursk Oblast. Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) in the National Security and Defense Council, told the Kyiv Independent that Ukrainian forces had advanced over two kilometers in Kursk Oblast on the first day. He declined to comment further on operational details. In a Jan. 5 Telegram post, Kovalenko said that the Ukrainian attacks in several directions in Kursk Oblast "came as a surprise" for the Russian troops. Andrii Yermak, the head of the President’s Office, praised the “good news” from the southwestern Russian region where Ukraine is gripping onto a narrow patch of territory at high costs, saying that “Russia is getting what it deserves.

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