"Transfer of war to the territory of the Russian Federation": OP named political goals of the Armed Forces in Kursk region

According to Mikhail Podolyak, people in the Kursk region live in a completely different reality and still believed that their war was not concerned. Now they will see a completely different picture and may finally start a discussion that it is for the war and what consequences it will lead. In the Kursk region, the ninth day continues the operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office Mikhail Podolyak voiced four political goals that Ukraine wants to achieve, in an interview with the Russian online edition of "Medusa". The first of them, according to Podolyak, is that Ukraine is leading a defensive war, gradually pushing Russian artillery to the required distance in order to prevent its use against the civilian population.

The second task is to cut logistics routes that allow Russian troops to effectively transfer reserves throughout the front line. This includes the destruction of rock roads, centers of accumulation of resources and training bases. The adviser to the head of the OP stressed that Ukraine does not set a goal of occupying Russian territories, but is leading the war within the framework of defense and destroys only military objects.

He noted that social objects remain under the control of the Russian Federation, because they have no value for Ukraine. The third goal is to demonstrate the inability of Russian military and civil leadership. "They cannot understand what is happening, they are not capable of rapid effective decisions and by their actions once again prove that they have poorly managed the situation. In this sense, little has changed since the Wagner campaign of 2023. Accordingly, for our (international - ed.

) Partners It should be obvious that Russia is not so strong as to control the internal risks that gradually grow through the war, "Podolyak explained. The fourth purpose of the Armed Forces operation in the Kursk region, he called "the transfer of war to the territory of Russia. " "At the entrance to the Kursk region we saw how shocked people are: they live in a different reality. It seems to them that the war is already going almost in the territory of Europe, and they have no risks.

They see a completely different situation now. Of course, everything It will have serious social consequences for Russia. We will remind, on August 14 the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces Alexander Sirsky reported to President Vladimir Zelensky about capturing more than a hundred Russian military and advancement for another one or two kilometers in the Kursk region from the beginning of the day.