The Ukrainian forces withdrew almost completely from the Kursk region in Russia, where they ended an attack that stunned the Kremlin last summer with its speed and audacity.
Ukrainian soldiers in the front described a decline in places and chaos in others, as Russian forces stormed their lines and forced them to return to a slice of land along the border.
By the time when a Ukrainian attack species fell from its location less than a week ago, all their cars were destroyed, as the drones were canceled day and night and were almost outside the ammunition.
“The Russian forces were closing from all directions,” the commander of the family said.
The commander, who requested to be identified only through the mark of his call, said in Ruda, in line with the military protocol, that it took two days to raise more than 12 miles from its positions near the Russian village of Kazacchi to the Ukrainian border. By that time, the Russian forces were “the area where our positions were already by the Russian forces.”
At the height of the attack, the Ukrainian forces controlled about 500 square miles of Russian territory. By Sunday, they were barely cling to 30 square miles along the border between Russia-Ukraine, according to Passi Barinin, a military analyst in the Black Bird group, which is based in the Black Black Black Black Black.
“The end of the battle is coming.”
The amount of Russian lands that Ukraine still controls in Corsak cannot be confirmed independently, and the soldiers stated that the bad fighting was continuing. Ukrainian soldiers said the fighting near the border is about the detention of Russian territory, and more than an attempt to prevent Russian forces from flowing to the thick area of ​​Ukraine and opening a new front in the war.
The soldiers said they are trying to create strong defensive positions along the Russian side of the border.
“We continue to hold positions on the Corsak front,” said Booda, commander of the attack group. “The only difference is that our positions have turned much closer to the border.”
Andre, a Ukrainian intelligence officer fighting in Kursk, said, frankly. “Now we need to stabilize the situation.”
Some analysts have seen the Kursk operation as an unnecessary gamble, and the Ukraine forces extend and lead to severe losses at a time when they were already struggling to defend a long front line in their country. However, it provided a moral batch that affects the need for Ukraine, which sought to show that it might return the war to Russia to Russia, and he hoped that the lands it occupied there would be influence in any ceasefire negotiations.
While Kiev managed to stop Russia’s progress in eastern Ukraine, the role in Corsak comes because the Trump administration is pushing a quick truce.
The opposite of Ukraine’s fortunes in Kursk, whose climax reached a decline, began seriously earlier this month, did not decrease to any one worker. Russian forces bombed supply lines in Ukraine and began to cut off escape. The North Korean forces, which Moscow brought, initially, improved their combat capabilities. At a decisive moment, American support – including intelligence participation – was suspended.
How to turn the tide
When the New York Times visited the border between Sumi and Korsk in late January, the day movement was almost impossible because the sky was full of Russian drones.
The main road from Sumi to Soudha, a small Russian town about six six miles to the northeast, occupied by the Ukrainian forces since August, was full of burned cars, tanks and armored vehicles.
Ukraine had sent some of its most experienced songs to the Cursk Operation, but months of unworthy attacks by Russian forces and thousands of North Korean forces fighting alongside them were increasing.
While the North Korean forces withdrew from the battlefield in January to reassemble their ranks, they returned to fighting in early February. Ukrainian soldiers said their combat skills had improved.
“Many of them have carried out very smart tactical maneuvers,” said Booda, commander of the family.
By mid-February, the Russian forces advanced within five miles of the main display roads in Ukraine to Sudzha, allowing them to target roads with drones-many of which were linked to super visual fiber cables and thus fortified of confusion.
Other Ukrainian soldiers, such as Brunta, described them to be recognized only by their first name or call mark according to the military protocol, who described Russian forces using drones to attack.
“Their drones will come near the main display routes and wait for a target,” said Cap, a 36 -year -old special operating fighter who asked his identity through his call mark.
Ukrainian soldiers said that Russian drones were hitting explosives in advance to destroy the bridges in Corsak, to try to make the Ukrainian forces more difficult to retreat.
The Russian warplanes also attacked the bridges, in one of the cases that dropped a 6000 -pound bomb to cut one main artery, according to Ukrainian soldiers and Military analysts.
Artem, commander of the Grand Ukrainian brigade, said that the destruction of bridges was one of the main reasons that Kiev had suddenly abandoning positions in recent weeks. He said that not everyone came out, but most of them did that.
The moment Russia penetrated
Ukraine’s contract in Kursk was already dangerous when the Trump administration announced the suspension of military aid and intelligence participation on March 3.
The sudden loss of American intelligence is doubled to target the accuracy of difficulties, according to Andre, the intelligence officer. Without this, he and other soldiers said, the silence of the American -made multiple bombers known as Himars.
“We could not allow expensive missiles to launch the wrong target,” Andrei.
Then on March 8, Russian forces achieved a penetration, sneaking behind the Ukrainian lines by walking for miles through an abandoned gas pipeline to organize a sudden attack. The Russian propaganda and officials delivered the operation as a heroic achievement, while the Ukrainian sources described it as a risk -built step that led to many deaths.
While the exact number of the Russian forces concerned and the success of the attack was impossible to confirm independently, “it has caused the occurrence of caffeine jamming and purchase behind the Ukrainian lines that are likely to provoke them to start withdrawal,” said Mr. Barwin from the Black Bird group, which analyzes satellite images and social media content from the battlefield.
Andre said that the Russians “outperformed us a little.” “There was a little panic.”
Almost at the same time, the North Korean forces were helping to lead the attack that penetrated the Ukrainian lines south of the small village of Kurylivka, restricting the ability of KYIV to provide its forces.
With the Ukrainian forces retreating there on dedicated defensive lines, the Russian forces continued to push towards Sudzha and the attacks increased.
Analysts said that, given the Russian parking, the evacuation by the car would have given drones an easy target. The destroyed military vehicles that are scattered on the roads have also created obstacles to retreat – this is why “an important part of the withdrawal will read on foot,” according to Serhii Hrabskyi, military analyst and former Ukrainian army colonel.
The soldiers said that some Ukrainian soldiers burned their own equipment to prevent them from falling into the hands of Russian before walking.
On March 10, some units were issued to withdraw from Sudzha, three Ukrainian soldiers and leaders said.
“It was a mixture of organized and chaotic retreat,” said Booda. “Various factors have affected the nature of withdrawal: fatigue, good or poor requests from individual leaders, poor understanding or firm coordination.”
However, despite the allegations made by President Vladimir F. Putin from Russia and President Trump, there were no large numbers of Kyiv’s forces surrounded, according to Military analysts Those who use Geographical fighting footage to Map The developments of the battlefield, the Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Kursk and even some prominent Russian military bloggers.
Three days later, the Russian Ministry of Defense said it has regained full control over Sudzha. On Saturday, she claimed that its forces recovered two villages outside the city.
While the general staff of the Ukrainian army did not address the seizure of Russia from Sudzha, it was issued on Sunday a Map of the battlefield The city appears outside the region it controls in Korsk – which has shrunk into a narrow strip of the ground.
Soudha, which was home to 5,000 people, was severely damaged. Since the Kursk operation began, military analysts say, both sides have been lost.
Fears from a new front
While Kiev was hoping to use his control of Russian soil as a financial lever in any negotiations to end the war, Mr. Putin is now using the Ukrainian decline to try to strengthen his hand in talks with the Trump administration about stopping hostilities.
On Saturday, President Folodimir Zelinski of Ukraine accused the Russian forces of the Mass along the border and trying to cut the Ukrainian forces and its trap in Kursk by pressing the neighboring Sumi area. The claims cannot be independently verified.
Now, Ukrainian soldiers say they are determined to prevent the Russians from pushing Sumi.
Oksana Penchocova, a 44 -year -old volunteer who lives in Sumi, said that she is concerned about what will be kept in the coming weeks.
She said, “Living under constant strikes and bombing – everyone can not deal with that,” she said.
Reports previously contributed Yuri Chevalafor Lebuov Shulodkofor Maria Varinkova and Continuing méheut.
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