The though that the Ukrainian occupation of the 200 or so sq miles of strategically unimportant Russian territory they have seized near Kursk is going to give them leverage in armistice negotiations is absurd.
Zelensky - "if you don't give into our demands we will not withdraw from Kursk"
Putin - " No problem, just leave them there and we will take care of them after the agreement is finished"
At the end of the day, the Ukraine will be begging Putin to allow the cut off and surrounded Ukrainian troops occupying Russia to leave with their lives instead of being destroyed in detail to the last man.
To think otherwise is delusional in the extreme.
Yeah everything Ukraine does is idiotic it doesn’t make a bit of sense and they will all be surrounded and killed to the last man in the next few weeks.
But somehow years later idiotic Putin has wrecked his own country as well as Ukraine and still cannot defeat this relatively tiny country.