Anonymous wrote:While Ukrainians are claiming to encircle Leningrad or whatever flights of fancy are currently making the rounds, they are being routed in the real war:
As for the Kursk front, the actual reality, bolding by me:
"Everyone who posts about "Ukrainians taking territory in Kursk oblast" or "Russians retaking territory in Kursk oblast" is either really stupid or lying to you for clicks. That is not the kind of fighting that is occurring there. It's mostly small teams trying to spot each other and then hunting each other with drones and artillery, or trying to ambush each other. There is no frontline, and most of the map painting for either side is based on a 5 man team driving through an empty villages and snapping a pic while pursuing the enemy. The truth is that we simply don't know who has fire control over what village at any given moment, and it's not the kind of positional warfare where that matters. The Ukrainians are trying to find places where they could dig in and establish supply lines; the Russians are consolidating a defensive perimeter and gathering reserves from where they won't weaken the actual strategic battlegrounds. The actually important questions are whether/when the AFU can establish supply and when the RuAF can coordinate the resources for a sweeping purge of the afflicted area. Russians driving through a village and not seeing the Ukrainian DRG team in the woods nearby does not matter for the overall situation; neither does Ukrainians posting pics from villages they drove through four days ago. Neither of these is newsworthy or has strategic impact."
Ukraine has control over dozens of villages and continues to advance. Russia has retaken a few towns here and there, only to lose them again a day later, while Ukraine continues to push the Russians back and continues to drive them deeper. Ukraine has fire control or outright control over key roads, rails, and logistical hubs in the southern part of Kursk.
Russia has thus far been largely unable to stop them.