Forbes magazine described the failed Russian offensive that was supposed to take place on Thursday in Russia's Kursk region, writing that it was a bloodbath for the Russians, but Russian forces should not be expected to stop the attack. The Ukrainians entered it three months ago, and Moscow has been unsuccessful since then, sending tens of thousands of troops to retake the territory.
On Thursday, Forbes described one of the most intense clashes between Russian and Korean forces against the Ukrainian army in the Kursk region, which was supposed to take place this morning. The American magazine recalled that at this stage of the fight, including: the 810th Russian Marine Brigade. Recently, its soldiers received 40 BTR-82 wheeled armored vehicles to compensate for the losses caused during previous unsuccessful attempts to dislodge Ukrainian forces.
“Blood donation for the Russians”
On Thursday, the Russians again attacked the Ukrainians in the Kursk region using 14 BTR-82 vehicles. However, the attack failed and ten people were killed, injured or thrown from the transport. 17-ton vehicles can accommodate up to 10 soldiers, i.e. 810 people. the brigade could lose up to 140 people, notes Forbes.
As he stated, “The Kremlin, which is trying to regain control of the Kursk region, can suffer huge losses, but only if there is a realistic prospect of Donald Trump's peace plan.” This is while “It was a bloodbath for the Russians, but we should not expect the Russian forces to stop the attack.”
Trump's promise
According to Forbes, Russia's policy is now in a state of uncertainty 33 months after the armed attack on Ukraine, as the Republican candidate won the US presidential election, he wrote. He recalled that Donald Trump promised to “end the war in Ukraine” before his inauguration in January next year.
According to the previous conclusions of the American newspaper Wall Street Journal, this plan is to “stop the conflict on the current front line and create a demilitarized zone”. This zone stretched 1300 kilometers along the entire front line.
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Video purporting to show North Korean soldiers in Russia's Kursk region Anton Gerashchenko/Twitter
The current front line passes through the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine, and also in the direction of the Kursk region of Russia, where Ukrainian forces invaded in early August this year. “If Trump's plan is actually implemented, Russia will have to give up 435 square kilometers of its territory in exchange for about 20 percent of Ukraine,” Forbes wrote.
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, as previously reported by Kyiv media, demanded from the commanders that the Ukrainian forces be withdrawn by October 1. However, fighting continues in the border region, where Russian troops are supporting North Korea, which has been deployed to the region.
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Trump's peace proposal
Forbes' Ukrainian interlocutors said that Trump's alleged peace offer was “simple” and that Russia and North Korea could be sending troops and equipment to the Kursk region to create the conditions for a peace that may never materialize.
– Our 41st brigade has been fighting in this sector since the beginning, and one of the most important areas for us is the city of Suja, – said Kiril Sazonav, political scientist and soldier of the armed forces of Ukraine, according to the UNIAN agency. . According to him, out of 55,000 people sent in this direction, about 20,000 Russian soldiers have already been killed in the border region. According to Sazonav, “in this context”, three or five thousand North Korean soldiers are “a small number”.
This military official said that “at the moment, the Kursk region is a problem and his biggest failure in the eyes of Putin.” As Sazonav explained, Putin wants to show Trump that “the special military operation (information about the propaganda of the armed attack – editor) is going according to plan, that he will win in Ukraine and that the war can be concluded on Russia's terms.” – But Trump just laughs at this, said Sazonav.
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