For the first time after the Second World Army of another country came to the Russian Federation: Bloomberg about fighting in Kurshchyna
Bloomberg wrote about it on Thursday, August 8. "The gloomy Putin summoned yesterday of the army and security service leaders to obtain explanations. Angry Russian military bloggers accuse high -ranking officials of flashy incompetence," journalists write. Against the background of reports of fighting near the key Russian station on the last route of the pipeline to Europe, European gas prices have increased through Ukraine. Nevertheless, gas supply continues.
Ukraine has not yet commented on this operation or its goals. Bloomberg notes that the possible causes of the offensive may be an attempt to capture the territory as a possible trump card with Moscow, or it is a distracting maneuver designed to reduce the pressure on the Ukraine defense line by delaying the Russian forces from the front.
The White House stated that they seeking to "better understanding" the situation from Kiev, and added that Ukraine did not violate the US rules on the use of US weapons in Russia. "This episode showed the fragility of the defense of the Russian border with the growing number of its soldiers in Ukraine. It raised the Ukrainian moral spirit. And also undermined the Kremlin's carefully designed image of Putin as a defender of ordinary Russians," the material reads.
The war, which the Russian president has begun in Ukraine, now extends to the territory of the Russian Federation, where residents of border areas live under a constant threat of shelling and drones attack on key industrial sites.
Anthony Khalpin's material is believed that these events are likely to strengthen Kiev argument that US and European allies should not be afraid of the Kremlin's threats about escalation and that Ukraine should be allowed to fight Putin in any way that she considers fit. to end the war as soon as possible. We will remind, the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak stated that events in Kursk region can improve Ukrainian negotiation positions.