On the west side of Highway 38K-030 in Kursk Oblast, after two days of fierce fighting, the movement of Russian troops has been temporarily hindered, and the position of the front line has not changed. The only striking result was the successful recapture of the settlement of Kremyano, about 4 kilometers east of Olgovka, marking a significant breakthrough north of Kursk in the direction of Lesser Rockia.
In addition, in the direction of Borki, the Russian army has continued to advance westward for the past 48 hours, and its advance is now approaching the eastern flank of the key settlement of Plekhovo, with a straight-line distance of only 1.7 kilometers between the two. Judging by the current progress of the advance, there is a good hope that the Russian army will attack the settlement of Plekhovo within this week, so as to establish its dominance on the eastern front of Kursk.
According to previous speculation, the Russian army's recent plan in Kursk Oblast is to gradually recapture the settlement of Prekhovo on the eastern front and the Suja crossing point on the western front, and then complete the closing and laying of nets in the border area, annihilating the remnants of the Ukrainian army in the Kursk region within the encirclement.
According to the latest reports of United States intelligence, Ukraine has already suffered extremely heavy losses in the Kursk direction. About 16,000 soldiers, nearly 200 tanks, and more than 300 armored vehicles were eliminated or captured by the Russian army. Behind these numbers are countless broken families and painful wounds that will never heal.
In fact, Ukraine's operation in Kursk is an adventurous move; They originally wanted to use the strategy of "encircling Wei to save Zhao" to invade Russia and force the elite troops of the Russian army to return to defense in order to relieve their defensive pressure in Donbass, Kharkov and other places. However, as things stand, the adventure did not bring any benefit to it. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and his aides apparently underestimated the military strength of the Russian army, and then fell into the quagmire of a war of attrition.
The Ukrainian army is facing severe challenges, its supply lines have been disrupted, its command center has been destroyed, and its soldiers have suffered heavy casualties. However, the support given by the United States and the West is really difficult to reverse the disadvantaged situation they find themselves in on the battlefield. If Zelensky does not make up his mind to withdraw his troops, then the tens of thousands of elites of the Ukrainian army will most likely be wiped out. In this way, the Russia-Ukraine conflict will develop in the direction that Western countries least want to see.