The position of the Ukrainian army in the Kursk region, where it has been carrying out an offensive since last summer, is strategic in the context of possible peace negotiations between kyiv and Moscow.
The Ukrainian army announced on Tuesday January 7 that it was carrying outcombat operations” in the Russian region of Kursk, striking in particular “a military command post”, after having deleted in its press release any mention of “new offensive operations» which she had initially spoken about. “This strike is an integral part of the combat operations of the units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, which carry out combat operations on the territory of the Russian Federation», indicated the Ukrainian general staff in this press release published in English on Telegram, without specifying whether Western American missiles had been used.
On Sunday, the Russian army reported a new Ukrainian offensive in this region, where the Ukrainian military has controlled several hundred square kilometers since August 2024, despite attempts to dislodge them from Russian troops, supported in this sector by soldiers North Koreans, according to kyiv and the West. Monday evening, President Volodymyr Zelensky, for his part, recalled in his daily address “l’importance» to fix the Russian army in the Kursk region, so as to prevent it from deploying all of its forces on the eastern and southern fronts. “We maintain a buffer zone on Russian territory, actively destroying Russian military potential“, he assured.
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“High Precision Strike”
Russian military bloggers, close to the army, have also reported this new Ukrainian attack since Sunday. The Ukrainian army, for its part, has remained generally silent on the subject. “This is not my domain“, replied the commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, Mikhaïlo Drapaty, on Monday, when asked about the Russian assertions.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian army did not specify in its press release whether American (ATACMS) or British (Storm Shadow) missiles had been used in its “high precision strike» against a Russian command post, near Belaïa. Russia sees the Ukrainian attacks carried out on its soil with Western missiles as a red line and promises each time “an answer », threatening in particular to strike the capital kyiv in retaliation.
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