Russia’s war of aggression: Kiev’s commander-in-chief: Offensive in Kursk was forced

The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Olexander Syrsky, described the surprise summer offensive on Russian territory as a forced pre-emptive strike. “I had to simultaneously disrupt the attack on Kharkiv, relieve the pressure on the entire front and prevent the opening of another front in Sumy,” Syrskyi told the French daily Le Monde, according to Ukrainian media.

He therefore led the attack at the point where the enemy had concentrated the least forces. This made it possible to weaken the offensive potential of the Russian armed forces not only along Ukraine’s northern border. Overall, the intensity of Russian attacks has decreased – “with the exception of Pokrovsk and Kurachove.”

In the summer, after more than two years of defense against the war of aggression ordered by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, Ukraine returned the fighting to Russian territory for the first time with the offensive in the Kursk region.

To this day, despite heavy Russian attacks – now also supported by North Korean soldiers – Ukraine maintains control over a bridgehead of several hundred square kilometers in the neighboring country. At the same time, Russia has also increased its pace of conquests in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.