12 Aug: DEEP PENETRATION: Why the Kursk Frontline COLLAPSES | War in Ukraine Explained

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Today there are a lot of updates from the Kursk direction.

Here, the Ukrainians launched an incursion into the Russian territories and managed a deep breakthrough far beyond Russian defenses. To put this offensive into perspective, in just three days of active operations, Ukrainians gained more territory in Kursk than Russians in three months in Kharkiv, and in this video I will tell you exactly how that happened.

The initial goal of the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance force was to swiftly penetrate deep beyond the Russian border using highly mobile units reinforced with armor. These actions were intended to pave the way for the main Ukrainian offensive forces. The tactic was the following: Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance units scout the area for Russian positions, analyzing the terrain, and systematically neutralizing Russian border defenses. Afterward, the main force move into the secured territories to consolidate control. The initial assault force was composed of three hundred Ukrainian fighters, supported by eleven tanks and twenty armored vehicles. This force included elite elements from the Eighty-eight and Eighty-second Air Assault Brigades, some of the most formidable units in the Ukrainian army.

The primary Ukrainian assault group stationed in the village of Yunakivka was tasked with eliminating Russian positions at the Sudzha border crossing. Success in this attack would allow Ukrainian forces to utilize the P-Two-Thousand highway to advance toward the regional center, the town of Sudzha. Meanwhile, another assault group positioned in the village of Novenke, north of Yunakivka, was assigned to seize control of the border villages of Sverdlikovo and Nikolayevo Darina, securing the northern flank of the advance. Securing control of these two villages would allow the assault force to dominate the highway at Sverdlikovo, effectively cutting off Russian reinforcements from the nearby town of Korenevo. A third group, also stationed at Yunakivka, was tasked with capturing the villages of Guyevo and Kurilovka to protect the southern flank from potential Russian counterattacks.

The offensive began with Ukrainian shelling of the Russian garrison at the Sudzha border crossing. Combat footage from the area shows significant damage to the crossing, with Russian troops being suppressed and forced to take cover in the buildings. Additionally, the Russians abandoned a tank at the crossing, as most of their soldiers were caught off guard by the intensity of the Ukrainian artillery barrage. An attempt by Russian forces to deploy two additional old T-Sixty-Two-M tanks from the town of Sudzha ended in failure, as both were quickly destroyed on the road.

In response, the Russian command deployed a Mi-Twenty-Eight and a Ka-Fifty-Two attack helicopters to counter the Ukrainian assault groups. However, the Russian pilots, lacking an accurate understanding of the scale of the Ukrainian offensive and the evolving situation, were unable to effectively engage the enemy. Both helicopters were eventually shot down. In a video released by Ukrainian drone operators, one can see the Mi-Twenty-Eight being hit and brought down by an FPV drone, a tactic previously unseen in the war.

As their positions at the checkpoint were unsustainable, losses too heavy, and reinforcements destroyed, over forty surviving Russian soldiers at Sudzha checkpoint surrendered to Ukrainian assault groups. Surviving Russian soldiers got taken into captivity, and it is estimated that a total of three hundred Russians surrendered in the Kursk direction. The original, uncensored combat footage of all operations can be found on our Telegram channel through the link in the description.

The Russian forces were small and dispersed along the border, making it easy for the Ukrainians to isolate and eliminate them, given that reinforcements were far away. As the Ukrainian spearhead successfully destroyed the main Russian formations at the border, the main Ukrainian force took advantage of this success, advancing over ten kilometers across the front toward Sudzha and its flanks.

This success at the border allowed the Ukrainians to swiftly enter the town of Sudzha, driving the surprised and disorganized Russian forces back to the right bank of the Sudzha River. The Russians had relied on their border guards as the primary defense before the town, but the scale of…

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  2. Superb report !! about a fantastically GENIUS move by the Ukrainian Army 💜💜💜 HUGE THANK YOUs to all who sacrifice for the sake of freedom and just peace for us all 🙏🙏 Greetings from little, old me, Norway

  4. The next incursion might be in Bryansk region. Maybe even up to Smolensk. And cut off Belorus from RUZZIA 😊

    Viele in Belorus warten ja auf die Befreiung von ihrem Diktator Lukaschenko 🇺🇦😎😜😁

  6. Identifying Russia's defensive weakness: All its personnel and material is used to bully and invade Ukraine, leaving only underequipped and ill trained token forces behind to defend. Russia mainly hoped to keep people from invading using rhetoric about nuclear retaliation. Putin never expected anyone audacious enough to call his bluff.

  7. I believe it was instrumental to the Russian surrender in the border towns, that they knew they would be taken to a rear facility with hot showers, clean sheets and large screen LCD TV to watch the remainder of the Olympics and any available Fotbol games. WHO could resist such an offer?

  8. This is the difference between Russia and Ukraine. UA has employed detailed reconnaissance and planned strategically to capture key positions that would facilitate the forward movement of the second wave group. Russia simply engages in-force defenses with as many men (and sometimes) vehicles as they think they need to overwhelm the defenders; this appears to be their reconnaissance effort. After that they send another wave along exactly the same route to "mop up" what the first wave didn't get killed by!

  10. NO EXIT PLANS FOR UKRAINE TROOPS IN 🇷🇺 RUSSIA. ALL 🇺🇦🪦🪖 SENT ON SUCIDEMISSIONS BUT ZELENSKYY THE CLOWN 🤡🇺🇦 HAS AN EXIT PLAN. HE WILL GO LIVE IN LUXURY FLORIDA ESTATE WITH HIS FAMILY. WITH ALL THE MONEY HE MADE FROM DEEPSTATE.

  11. And russia is asking international community to condemn this brutal attack towards civilian infrastructure :DDDD
    Sometimes I think we're actually living in some stand-up comedy matrix.

  15. Putin is waiting for the American election in November to quit things down. Either because his puppet gets elected or he doesn’t have leverage with her.

  20. After so much struggling in Ukraine, russian troops were eager to see what a "special military operation" look like, and Ukraine has delivered it😂

  21. I can assume that Valery Gerasimov might be demoted soon. The over-all management of the front line with Ukraine's border was weakened. Perhaps in hindsight, the Russians could have brought some forces down from The Finish and Baltic States border to reinforce the borders with Ukraine, since maybe they would be worried about border incursion with a country that they attacked?

  25. Pretty sure the UN won’t censure Ukraine, Russia and Putin getting a taste of what its like. Poor old Putin now got a big sooky going and because Ukraine stole his dummy. 😁😁😁😂😂😂

  28. Attack where they are weak and use those gains to get back what was lost. The energy reserves under the land occupied is one of the reasons for the attack in the first place. If Ukraine can threaten more territorial gains, Russia might loosen its grip elsewhere..

  31. These videos are so comical. Ukraine doesnt do anything since it has some failed actor as dictator who does whatever America tells him to do. Dont be fooled by his green t-shirt lol

  33. I was thinking about a year ago that a nice in and across run could have been done also in eastern Kharkiv Oblast/northern Luhansk Oblast, by taking the highway north from Pisky, Ukraine into Russia to Urazovo, Russia…. see below

  34. Impressive how decisive morale is. Russian army defense is almost non-existing and might admit defeat soon. Kursk region comes home to Ukraine, as it was historically 🫡

  37. WTF!, man, you gotta learn to say it correctly since you trying to be serious – it's not Ukr-O-inion – it is has to be pronounced as Ukr-A-inian. I understand your channel is reporting from Ukraine not from UkrOine?

  39. Putin says to Muscovites that they are defending their homeland, on the land of Ukraine, and as long as they believe that, they will not defend… their own land, that's elementary, Watson…🤔

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