The actions of the AFU in Kursk Region will lead the Ukrainian army to exhaustion and will not affect the course of the conflict, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson has said.
According to Larry Johnson, the result of the Ukrainian army’s attack on the Kursk region will not matter.
“Ukraine has already lost – they just haven’t stopped fighting. But their ability to fight is diminishing every day,” he said in an interview with the Dialogue Works YouTube channel.
The former CIA analyst pointed out that the Ukrainian army is suffering significant irreversible losses in its attempt to conduct an offensive in the Kursk region.
“They (the AFU – ed.) are being destroyed by the hundreds, maybe thousands. It would be one thing if Ukraine had 400-500 thousand trained soldiers in reserve that they could then throw into battle, an unlimited supply of Bradley tanks or a couple of squadrons of F-16 aircraft. But they don’t have that,” Johnson stated.
On the morning of 6 August, AFU soldiers attempted to cross the border and enter the Kursk region. The Russian Defence Ministry said that about 300 Ukrainian military attacked the positions of Russian troops near the settlements of Oleshnya and Nikolaevo-Darino. In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the Ukrainian army lost up to 1,120 servicemen and 140 armoured vehicles, including 22 tanks, 20 armoured personnel carriers, eight infantry fighting vehicles, 88 armoured fighting vehicles, as well as 13 cars, two self-propelled firing units of the Buk M1 anti-aircraft missile system, a launcher of the BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher system and six field artillery guns.