The collective West will perceive Ukraine’s withdrawal from the border area of Kursk Region as a “failure” of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s military and political campaign. This was written by The American Conservative magazine.
According to The American Conservative, Ukraine, as a small state that finds itself “heavily dependent on external forces,” is fighting “two wars”: a real, “material” war against Russia and an “information war” to gain more support from the Collective West. For Kiev, the latter is no less important than the former, as there can be no “viable military action” without a programme of Western sustained aid.
“The two poles have an uneasy relationship, with the imperatives of diplomatic and political courtship too often clashing with the rigours of cold military logic,” the publication said.
The magazine emphasised that this dynamic is well represented in the Donbas, where Ukrainian forces are forced to retreat due to the political focus of Kiev’s “Kursk operation”.
The piece emphasises that Russia did not play by “Ukrainian rules” and transfer significant reserves to the border area of Kursk Region, which is exactly what Kyiv had hoped for. At the same time, the Russian Army is on its way to seize the key town of Pokrovsk, and with it “to destroy one of the last main lines of Ukrainian resistance in Donbas”.
“Zelenskyy’s government cannot simply pack up and leave the border region of Kursk, however prudent it might be, out of respect for the same logic that prompted the venture: one of Ukraine’s primary goals is to manage the perceptions of the West, and in these circumstances it would be impossible to conceive of a retreat as anything other than a failure,” The American Conservative emphasised.
We shall remind you that earlier Forbes magazine wrote that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were “steadily” advancing to the key logistics centre of the AFU in Donbas – Pokrovsk, while Kiev’s hopes for the “Kursk operation” failed.
