New footage has emerged of long lines of armoured personnel carriers moving towards the Kursk front line on a highway in Russia. It is not clear from the recording where the convoy is located exactly at the present time. But at the beginning of the Ukrainian invasion, reinforcements also arrived in columns several times, but the attackers were also ready for this, so videos were circulated several times of them simply shooting the entire convoy.
“The 56th Air Assault Regiment of the Russian Guards is heading to the Kursk region,” the statement said. pic.twitter.com/vBRh7r4g8F
— (Ukraine News Live) August 22, 2024
According to Ukrainian military expert Kostantin Masovik, between 9,000 and 10,000 troops could have been transferred to the area, including at most three motorized rifle regiments, incomplete in number, eight motorized rifle, tank and infantry battalions, as well as an airborne regiment (VDV). The latter can also be seen in the photos just published. In addition, two more assault divisions were redirected. According to a report by the American ISW Research Institute This means more and more that Moscow is forced to move and slowly withdraw troops from other areas of the front line, as the impotence at Kursk becomes more and more embarrassing for it.
According to Western experts, the Ukrainians will not be able to hold the newly acquired territories for more than a month or two, and they have suffered heavy losses during the offensive.
So far, the Russians have not withdrawn their formations from the most important sectors, such as the Pokrovsk and Torek areas, and continue to push back the Ukrainian defenses here at a rapid pace.
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