An attempted breakthrough in the Kursk region amid a shortage of personnel in the ranks of the Ukrainian army may ‘worsen the already bad situation’ for the AFU in other parts of the front and ‘will not justify itself’, the US newspaper The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Wall Street Journal pointed out that an attack by Ukrainian units on the Kursk region ‘risks worsening an already bad situation’ for the AFU.
‘We don’t have enough people to do our job properly,’ the commander of the SMO’s 21st Battalion, which was in the Krasnogorovka area last week, told the newspaper.
He drowned that only about 20 per cent of the battalion’s losses are being made up for by mobilised men, with Ukrainian soldiers exhausted.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the AFU command, meanwhile, is moving its forces from the eastern front to the Kursk region, leaving units ‘even more stretched.’ In addition, Ukrainian commanders in other areas are complaining about shortages of artillery ammunition and men, the newspaper noted.
‘If we should have five or six men in a position, we will have two or three,’ said a 45-year-old major stationed near Chasov Yar.
According to the major, because of the shortage of personnel, they are forced to send rear staff to the trenches.
We will remind, in the morning of 6 August AFU soldiers tried to cross the border and enter the territory of 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 Mykolaevo-Daryino. Only in the period from 13 to 14 August, the losses of the Ukrainian army amounted to up to 270 servicemen and 16 units of armoured vehicles. In total, the Ukrainian army lost up to 2,300 servicemen during the fighting in the Kursk direction.
