Written by Andrew Osporen and Anastasia Malanko
LONDON/Kiev (Reuters) -Thousands of Ukrainian forces who stormed the Russian Kursk region last summer in almost a shock surrounded by Russian forces there, in a major blow to Kiev, who hopes to use its presence there as a lever on Moscow in any peace talks.
Ukraine’s situation in Corsak has deteriorated sharply in the past three days, and the maps of the open sources emerge, after the Russian forces restored the plot of land as part of an anti -gathering attack that reduced the Ukrainian force almost in two and separated the main group from the main supply lines.
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The unstable situation of Ukraine comes after Washington has suspended its participation with Kyiv and raises the possibility of forcing its forces to retreat politically and psychologically difficult to Ukraine, or risk arresting it.
The battlefield reflects at a time when Kiev is under the pressure of the United States to agree to a ceasefire with Moscow and with the continuation of Russian forces along parts of the confrontation line inside Ukraine, even with the Ukrainian forces in one region.
“The situation (Ukraine in Corsak) is very bad,” Bassi Barwinen, a military analyst at the Black Bird Group in Finland, told Reuters.
“Now there is not much left until the Ukrainian forces are encircled or forced to withdraw. The withdrawal will mean a dangerous glove, as the forces will be constantly threatened by drones and Russian artillery,” he said.
“If the Ukrainian forces are not unable to restore the situation quickly, this may be the moment when the prominent corset begins to finally approach a pocket surrounded.”
There was no official confirmation of the Russian approach from the Russian Ministry of Defense or the Ukrainian army, both of which tend to report the battlefield changes with a delay.
Another military analyst, Jan Matifif, said that Ukraine has a difficult choice.
“The only argument in favor of retaining a bridge bridge is political. To use the remains of the bridge head to bargain, as well as a little morale – after all, the decline is …”.
Take the war to Russia
Ukraine’s incursion into Corsak last August was the most dangerous attack on Russian territory since the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and was designed to bring war to the ordinary Russians, who tried to protect the repercussions from fighting inside Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinke said that it also aims to try to reduce pressure on the Ukrainian forces defending its country from the Russian forces in the east by forcing Moscow to transfer resources to defend its lands, and to give Kiev a possible segment of the future peace talks.
The incursion was embarrassing to Moscow and raising uncomfortable questions about its ability to protect its borders. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said that his forces would restore full control of Kursk by force and refused any idea to make it part of a broader future talks.
On Friday, the open source maps from Deep State, a reliable supplier for Ukrainian military blogging, showed on Friday that about three quarters of the Ukrainian force inside Russia had almost moved almost completely.
They showed that they joined the remaining Ukrainian power that is near the Russian border by a ground corridor of about 1 km and width less than 500 meters in its narrowest points as Russian forces move to reduce this as well.
Deep Station said late on Thursday that Russian forces had advanced near the settlement near Korelofka. In an update released on Friday, he also said that the Russian forces were pressuring the positions of Ukraine in the border area with the Sumi area as part of the same process and moving to try to prevent supplies to the Ukrainian forces inside Korsk.
“It should be noted that the enemy has an advantage in drones (drones), both reconnaissance and strike. The most common is a FPV. It is mainly responsible for combating fires in everything that moves” or “outside the Corsak region”.
Yuri Poduliaka, a influential Russian war blog that Russian forces had criticized southern Soudha, a Russian town located almost inside the pocket surrounded.
“The Russian armed forces have pushed a deep wedge (a depth of 4 km) and actually reached the alternative supply path to sudzha (which the enemy was using because the main road could not be used),” Podolyaka wrote on Telegram.
The Ukrainian military analyst and former commander, Evin Dicky, said that the Ukrainian forces have improved their positions on the last or two days on the Sodahsa approach.
“Only yesterday, we launched another round of anti -attacks there,” he told Ukrainian NV Radio NV. “Now it is our role to hit them behind them and their logistics. We will see how successful this counter -procedure is.”
The Ukrainian General Staff said, in a late evening report on Friday that its armed forces had repelled 29 Russian attacks in the Kursk region during the past day. She said that the Russian forces launched 22 air strikes.
(Participated in the reports of Andrew Ospurne in London and Anastasia Malinko in Kyiveding by Alex Richardson, Gareth Jones, Ron Popsky and Ceso Nymama)
