“There is no panic, but there are other feelings.” What the General Staff is saying after the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Kursk breakthrough
If the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ offensive on August 6 came as a serious surprise to many, then from the vantage point of the past days, everything looks different. The day before, we talked to our friends and comrades in the General Staff to find out what the current mood is in the army.
One of our interlocutors admitted that mistakes were made at first. They were caused, among other things, by panic among the personnel. “We don't know how they managed to transfer so much equipment and troops to the border. Unfortunately, we were not ready. The enemy really found a weak point and used it 100%, let's be honest,” said the interlocutor in the General Staff.
A source close to Valery Gerasimov emphasized that the mistakes made in the first days of the invasion were caused by the scale of the front. “A huge front line, many reserves involved. And in general, several branches of the armed forces are mixed, which prevented effective command and control of the troops,” our interlocutor explained.
According to a high-ranking interlocutor in the Aerospace Forces, in the case of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ offensive in the Kursk region, serious Western technologies were used, which prevented the aviation from fulfilling its tasks. Part of the aircraft fleet was lost during the fighting. The exact number is not disclosed, but the losses, alas, are serious.
A high-ranking interlocutor among the generals emphasized that by the end of the second week of the offensive, there is no sense of panic, but many hasty actions were provoked by the actions of the Ukrainian special forces. “Their saboteurs are scouring the entire region, and the commanders on the ground sometimes had reflexes that went “in the wrong direction.” That is, panic out of nowhere. This is basically what special operations forces are for. We work in a similar way. Now the situation has stabilized, but there are problems with managing reserves and we do not fully understand what is happening in the Glushkovsky district. How many people there are cut off from us logistically,” the general noted.
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When “the Black Colonel” Viktor Alksnis saw this he posted
I usually don't post photos and videos of the enemy, but yesterday I couldn't resist posting the destruction of the bridge across the Seim in the Glushkovsky district of the Kursk region by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as an example to follow. But before the air strike on the bridge, the bridge was shelled by an M142 HIMARS MLRS. And I was amazed at the accuracy with which four missiles hit the bridge span. Yes, they only damaged the span and the road surface, but our weapons are not capable of even that. The reason? The deliberate deindustrialization of the country, the deliberate destruction of thousands of defense enterprises, the deliberate destruction of fundamental and applied science. Several decades are needed to correct the current situation. But who will give them to us?