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Kursk CatalystA Russian monitoring resource summarizes the year 2024 in terms of territorial shifts during the war.
It is evident that the Kursk operation by the Ukrainian Armed Forces became the catalyst for transferring territories under Russia's control.
Prior to this, Russia's territorial gains were sporadic in nature☝🏻Moreover, just before the "Kursk adventure," the Russian Armed Forces attempted to organize a breakthrough in Kharkiv (the first operational-strategic level operation), but it was successfully contained by redeploying quality reserves. Following that, Syrsky executed President Zelensky's order to open a new front in Kursk.
Tactically, Syrsky achieved success because the Russians were unprepared for the Ukrainian breakthrough into the Kursk region. All claims that this operation was a preventive measure for securing Sumy are nonsense. The Russians were simply not ready.
However, strategically, Ukraine was cornering its last reserves into a small pocket in the Kursk region, and it was only after this that Russia's territorial gains became systematic.
The graph even shows how the angle characterizing Russia's territorial acquisitions changed.
We
wrote about this immediately. Without reserves, halting breakthroughs is impossible.
Syrsky certainly understood all of this well. So while he and Zelensky held a PR meeting on how to organize the school year in Sudzha, Russia was "gaining momentum" in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, while Ukraine could not stop them as they did near Kharkiv because combat-ready units were in Sudzha.
At that time, the Ermak's puppets happily promoted the "strategic genius of Zelensky and Yermak," who, in their opinion, were improving negotiation positions, while labeling us as Kremlin agents.
Now it is clear who was right…
This is the price of derailing negotiations to protect energy infrastructure from attacks that
took place in Qatar 🧩