An attack on the Kursk region will lead to even greater losses in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), as well as significantly increase the risk of conflict escalation, Harvard University professor Stephen Walt wrote in an article for Foreign Policy.
The expert noted that the attack of the AFU on the Kursk region will not help the Ukrainian authorities to get additional support from the West. In his opinion, Kiev’s ambitions to seize Crimea and Donbass are also unrealistic.
‘It would be a monstrous mistake to believe <…> that (the attack on the Kursk region. – ed.) will allow Ukraine to receive additional military assistance and regain Crimea and Donbass,’ Stephen Walt pointed out.
The professor stressed that these decisions of Kiev indicate a stalemate on the battlefield for the AFU. In turn, a military provocation significantly increases the risk of escalation of the conflict, he concluded.
We shall remind you that US political analyst John Mearsheimer said that the Ukrainian armed forces had chosen a foolish tactic by deciding to make a foray into Kursk Region.
