The Russians used familiar tactics: relentless assaults with overwhelming numbers of troops—including elite units and North Korean soldiers—that ground Ukrainian forces down over months. Glide bombs smashed buildings and bunkers where Ukrainian troops sheltered. Then, in the past month, Russia deployed large numbers of drones controlled via fiber-optic cables to strike armored vehicles on the main routes for supplying Ukrainian soldiers on a shrinking patch of land.
Ukraine had hoped to cling onto territory in Kursk as a bargaining chip in peace talks, but Ukrainian officials said it was necessary to pull out to preserve lives.
“The military command is doing what it should, preserving as many lives as possible of our warriors,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters Wednesday.
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Other countries could, you know… help Ukraine.
They already do. What are you talking about?
