Ukraine’s 2S7 howitzer operation.
43rd Artillery Brigade
The 10,000 powerful Ukrainian garrison in the oblivion of Kursk in western Russia is in trouble.
The relentless strike by an elite Russian drone group destroyed hundreds of vehicles into the town of Kursk along the main roads.
Taking advantage of the increasingly disastrous supply situation of Ukrainian Shivak operational tactical groups, Kursk’s much larger Russia and North Korean forces have doubled their three-month counterattack on Kursk.
The Ukrainian brigade, on the prominent northern tip, is being pulled back to Sudasuha. There, the Ukrainian forces recently rejected the Russian army’s attempts to infiltrate the Ukrainian border by sneaking up on an old gas pipeline.
The rearrangement could be a prelude to the complete Ukrainian withdrawal from Kursk, returning to the relative security of northern Ukraine.
The Russians are moving to cut off retreat by at least one raid by Ukrainian Air Force Mikoyan Mig-29. “The enemy is destroying the bridge at Kursk Oblast and destroying the bridge along the border, and the movement of Shivak operational tactical groups is trying to prevent Kursk Oblast from leaving Ukraine,” the Ukrainian Defense Strategy Center warned.
The Siversk OTG actually recently acquired its position in early February. However, the arrival of the advanced unmanned systems at the Rubicon Centre in Russia later that month changed everything.
“Rubicon employs advanced drone tactics,” explained independent analyst Andrew Perpetua. Worse, its explosive first-person viewing drone appears to be flying through Ukrainian radio jamming.
On February 25, or just before two days in total, a gust of wind from a Russian drone hits the road to Sudhaja. “The day I saw this must have been the day I began to worry about Kursk,” Perpetua wrote.
The success of the Russian drone campaign in Kursk came when Russia and furious President Donald Trump ousted Ukraine from further US aid and ended intelligence sharing between the US and Ukraine.
Ukrainian European allies could replace many of the Inters that Ukrainians no longer get from Americans. However, the switch can take some time. And it is clear that the Russians are seizing the opportunity given to them by Trump’s pro-Russia slowly.
“The temporal correlation between the halt of US intelligence sharing with Ukraine and the onset of the prominent collapse of Russia’s Kursk, Ukraine, is noteworthy,” the Washington, DC War Institute pointed out.
