Russia has diverted 30,000 troops from Ukraine to defend Kursk, says Kyiv

The Hill ^ | 8/27/24 | Brad Dress

[hardspunned]

Russia has diverted some 30,000 troops from the front lines in eastern Ukraine to the Kursk region, the top Ukrainian commander said Tuesday.

Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, said at a Ukrainian forum that the troops were moved from the front but did not clarify from which directions of eastern Ukraine.

He added the number of Russian troops being redeployed “is growing,” and the Kursk offensive is putting pressure on Moscow.

Ukraine has now claimed close to 500 square miles of Russian territory in Kursk, captured 100 settlements and taken 594 Russian prisoners, Syrskyi said.

The U.S. has also said there is evidence of Russian diverting troops from the front lines but has not provided any details on the redeployments.

[2CAVTrooper]

“It’s a good thing the Russians got LOTS of free equipment from the US during WWII because they are so inept they would have never saved Moscow on their own.”

Also helped that Hitler was incompetent... Just like Putin.

[Magnum44]

That’s some serious spin you got there. You should send your resume to the Harris/Walz campaign. They need more spin doctors. 🤣

[tennmountainman]

Does not take a rocket scientist to understand the Deeper Ukies advance,
the less likely they will make it out alive.
Even Zeepers should understand this.

[BeauBo]

The Telegraph (UK) reports:

"Ukraine launched a cross-border raid into the Russian region of Belgorod, sparking panic in pro-Kremlin media on Tuesday (27 Aug).

Ukrainian troops supported by armoured vehicles attacked the Nekhoteyevka border checkpoint (North of Kharkiv City) early in the morning, according to Russian military bloggers.

Kyiv has already seized 500 square miles of the neighbouring Kursk region in an invasion launched earlier this month.

The size of the Ukrainian force attempting a breakthrough in Belgorod was unclear on Tuesday night, with Russian officials saying the border was “under control”...

...Russian state broadcaster RT quoted Voyenna Khronika, another military Telegram channel, as saying the size of the operation was “about the same in terms of personnel and numbers as in the first minutes of the Kursk incursion”."

[Williams]

Very sincere question. What is your military background and level of expertise. Because you’re telling everyone exactly what the two sides are doing, why, and exactly what the result will be.

Of course either the Ukrainians will continue to roll, will dig in and defend, will get cut off and suffer serious losses, or will withdraw before that happens.

Now I’d like to know at what level of military strategic or tactical expertise you purport to know exactly what will happen.

[House Atreides]

“ Russia currently has 500,000 men in Ukraine and is going to add 300,000 more by the end of the year.

https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-says-ukraine-targeted-border-regions-with-5-aerial-drones/7701455.html

According to Ukraine...

30,000 is an afterthought.”
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To use words favored by our neocon ZEEPERS, 30,000 is a “rounding error”.

[PIF]

It’s a good thing the Russians got LOTS of free equipment from the US during WWII because they are so inept they would have never saved Moscow on their own.

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Yes. Russia needs to repeat what Stalin did: use the best Ukraine troops and get weapons from the West.

[BeauBo]

“The 30,000 already in, they’re gone, dead or dead men walking.”

FYI, the 30,000 number is how many troops Russia has sent to Kursk. Ukraine sent about 15,000.

“The Russians have air superiority.”

Did you notice that the four main Russian airbases that provided Close Air Support to the theater were hit with big drone attacks, and that the rate of Russian glide bomb sorties has dropped in half, during the Kursk Operation? (with the Russians maintaining priority of those remaining fires for Pokrovsk and Toretsk).

It is like the Ukrainians had a NATO-style Operation Plan that included Air, unlike the usual Russian approach, of just ordering another Battalion down the road by itself, and then hitting the sauce.

[Jumper]

Very good take.

The DNC capture of the Pentagon with Austin has promoted military people for political affilation.

Normally a nation takes 60 years to collaspe, but DEI makes stupid nandatory.

The Ukrainians embraced LGBTQXX and tried to help impeach Trump.

The facism on display throughout Europe and USG means they have lost the voters.

Never trust a DNCarat. Ukraine sold its soul to WEF planners.

[Jumper]

America lost .02 of our population.

Russia lost 16 of every hundred.

American ignorance is a disease. Americans have been blinded by their own stupidy and MSM fanned hatred to think Russia is just another country to treat badly.

Our country deserves the pain that is coming our way as a result of the DNC and RINOs stupidy dealing with Russia.

[Jumper]

Russian military have come a long way from independent unit ops and now use combined arms from the corps level down.

Russia has surpassed Ukraine in drone warfare. Between offensive drones, surviellence drones, the Russians routinely launch an Iskander missile in 5 minutes towards targets. The Ukrainians frequently cite that they cannot target in support of their troops as quickly as Russia.

Command and control of artillery, aviation, space, missile, naval, and ground forces actually is the norm now.

[hardspunned]

Man, I blew that thread. When I first read the headline, I misread it into Skyrski transferring 30,000 to Kursk.

I think what happened is when I read “Russians send 30,000 to Kursk” the massiveness of that lie threw my brain into vapor lock. By the time my head cleared, it had defaulted back to the truth, Butcher Syrski had transferred 30,000 hapless Uke souls to Kursk. Then I was off to the races.

I’ve been watching Doug Macgregor, Dan Davis and others on TV today. They were obviously reading our conjectures on the other thread.

[Jumper]

Remember the initial reporting that Ukraine had units basically stacked up in other areas in smaller groups or units that were dispearsed and those numbers reported were around 90,000. In the first week they rotoated around 4-5,000 out and replacement as the logistics came in.

I think that becasue they could not exploit the break to the Kursk NPP, the first 10-days we saw Ukrainian groups of 3-10 vehicles going in all directions, circling back, and trying to find gaps to move farther north. The one thing that was reported early was Russian special ops and Chechens were roaming the woods hunting Ukrainians. The first two days the conscripts put up enough resistance before surrendering to keep all those reserves flowing; when the holdups happened Ukraine could not just keep pushing them closer to the Russian border. Had they been successful in getting into artillery range of the Kursk NPP they were going to shell it. Russia spend the first 3 days strengthening the surrounding areas in 3-4 belts of defensive lines designed to keep Ukrainians from getting to the city or NPP. Once the commanders in Russia knew they had sufficient defensive lines to withstand the follow on 90,000 Ukrainians if they had flowed into Russia in the NPP area, they began blocking operations to the left and right, and kept sending their spec ops into the Ukrainian rear.

Once Ukraine got bogged down around the middle of the second week, I thought they would either pull out or send more troops. They had started out with a lot of heavy equipment for making trenchlines but lost it. They started out with a Himars Battalion and lost them, along with Chek missile launchers. Russian overhead drones were picking out tanks and artillery as the priority targets, followed by Strikers/Bradleys and other APCs, then the other pickups, cars, vans, and assorted logistic traffic.

I am not sure that Russia moved much of anything... but to Ukraine any diversion of Russian forces into Kursk is somehow a sign of victory????

Maybe Zelinski left the AZOV units on the crumbling frontlines in Donbas to be eliminated by Russian advances there, but they just pulled back leaving the conscripts to fight and die. Instead, Zelinski has lost nearly 100 tanks, and another 600 vehicles in Kursk area. The sheer madness of trying to capture a Nuclear Power Plant, again and again. Ukraine had Chernobyl and I saw the kids bussed around DOD in the early 2000s at installatons - all the deformed and dying kids, and every year the fund raisers for the children. That Zelinski would threaten nuclear power plants with his country’s history after the meltdown in Chernobyl is a sign of evil.

Ukraine is desperate. They know they are losing badly. If they manage to drag NATO into a shooting war with Russia, I suspect Russia will fire the first salvo. Any return fire from NATO will be met with MAD.

NATO has pushed Russia into a corner. To hear the diplomatic speak from Russia, the Kursk attack changed everything. It ended the international diplomacy. It was an attempt to at a nuclear target. Then in the middle of it they went after the other nuclear plant in Russian hands with drones, too. The corner Russia is in is that they are no longer going to accept more acts of war by NATO.

[VeniVidiVici]

And why did the Soviets lose so much? Perhaps Stalin should not have made deal with the devil