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Kursk operation reveals Russia’s lack of combat-ready units, says veteran
The Kursk operation by the Ukrainian Armed Forces has revealed that Russia has no combat-ready units left outside the front lines, veteran Yevhen Dykyi said in an interview with Radio NV on Oct. 11.
Dykyi, a veteran of the Russo-Ukrainian war and former commander of the Aidar battalion, noted that until recently, Russia was able to replenish its forces relatively well, compensating for losses without forming new units.
“The Kursk operation clearly put everything in its place,” said Dykyi.
“The Kursk operation very clearly showed that when they realized that it wouldn’t just fizzle out, that they actually had to present combat-ready forces and really fight, they had to withdraw those combat-ready forces from Kherson Oblast. They had to withdraw airborne troops and marines from Kherson Oblast. So, in all of Russia, outside the occupied Ukrainian territories, outside the front, there are no combat-ready units left. Everything that is really capable of fighting is already here. This is the first thing that the Kursk operation clearly showed.”
The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, reported on Oct. 11 that Russia had transferred 50,000 troops to the Kursk sector from other fronts, weakening the aggressor’s positions in Zaporizhzhia, Kherson oblasts, and the Kramatorsk front.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed for the first time on Aug. 12 that the Ukrainian Defense Forces had launched an operation in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
He emphasized that the operation, which began on Aug. 6, aimed to liberate Ukrainian border areas from Russian forces that had been regularly shelling Sumy Oblast.
Zelenskyy stated on Aug. 27 that Ukraine does not intend to occupy Russia’s Kursk Oblast; the operation in the region only hinders the Russians’ plans to create a buffer zone on Ukrainian territory.
The Ukrainian president reported on Sept. 2 that the operation in Kursk Oblast was proceeding according to plan and fulfilling its tasks. On Sept. 6, he noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine control 1,300 square kilometers in Kursk Oblast, where more than 100 settlements are located.
The DeepState monitoring group reported on Sept. 11 that Russian forces had launched an active assault in Kursk Oblast, attempting to attack Ukrainian forces from several directions.
Ukrainian forces, supported by drones and tanks, had breached a new section of the Russian border west of Ukrainian-controlled territory by Sept. 12. On Sept. 18, military commandant Oleksiy Dmytrashkovskyi confirmed that the Russian counteroffensive had been halted.
Russian large-scale offensive in Kursk Oblast ended in failure, the German tabloid Bild reported on Sept. 27.
The DeepState monitoring project reported on the evening of Oct. 10 that Russian troops had pushed back the left flank of the Ukrainian Defense Forces’ grouping in Kursk Oblast.
Ukrainian forces are conducting stabilization operations in Kursk Oblast, but have not yet regained control over all territories lost during the Russian attack, although the enemy had suffered significant losses, DeepState reported on Oct. 11.
