After eight months of resisting inside Russian territory, the Ukrainian pocket in the Kursk region is almost completely overrun, and what was once a great pride to Kiev is now described as its ‘most costly mistake.’
Ukrainian has lost over 69,000 troops during the Kursk incursion, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, leading to US President Donald J. Trump intervening for the lives and dignity of the thousands of encircled Ukrainian troops – and President Vladimir Putin has agreed to it.
But now, it arises an even more dangerous situation, in which we learn of Russian media claims that there are dozens of NATO officers among those surrounded.
RIA Novosti reported:
“About 30 officers from NATO countries were surrounded in the Kursk region, Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the pro-Russian Nikolaev resistance, told RIA Novosti, citing colleagues.
‘According to the underground, surrounded in of the Kursk region there are about 30 career NATO officers who were engaged in commanding troops on the ground, as well as incoming reconnaissance data from NATO satellites and adjusting strikes deep into Russian territory’, the agency’s interlocutor said.”
In the last few days, the Russians army launched a massive offensive in the Kursk region, liberating 31 settlements, while the Ukraine military lost more than two thousand soldiers in a week.
General Valery Gerasimov reported to Putin that the Ukrainian detachment is now isolated, and it is being ‘systematically destroyed’.
There is also evidence that, in some directions, Russian forces have crossed the border with Ukraine and are conquering territory in the Sumy region.
“The head of state [Putin] noted that if some time ago the Armed Forces of Ukraine left the Kursk region in large groups, now this is no longer possible. He also proposed to think about creating a security zone along the state border.”
After Trump asked Putin to spare the lives of surrounded Ukrainian troops, the Russian leader responded that the leadership of Ukraine would have to order its military ‘to lay down their arms and surrender.’
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