"Waiting Bakhmut 2.0": Russian soldiers are preparing for the most fierce battle near Kursk - NYT (photo)

Military analysts say that the Armed Forces have sent some of their best reserves to the Kursk region, hoping to use this part of the territory as a subject of agreement. About it writes The New York Times, whose journalists were talked to Russian soldiers. "This is the most fierce fighting - I saw nothing like all the special operation," said the Russian commander for pseudo "Gades", who commands about 200 fighters, using the Kremlin euphemism of war.

In Russian troops, even more fierce clashes in the Kursk region are expected. "We expect Bakhmut 2. 0," - explained the commander from the Akhmat regiment, which mostly consists of the rest of the "Wagner". Other soldiers surveyed were Russian volunteers who signed high funds. According to them, the opportunity to fight in the Russian territory serves as an additional impulse to participate in the war, the purpose and reasons of which he could not name.

Another Russian commander who agreed to speak on the conditions of anonymity said he was waiting for "incredible" losses. The Finnish analyst Passi Pasi Paraynenen with Black Bird Group noted that the Russian operation in Sudzhi would cost the lives of soldiers and civilians because Ukraine has placed strong units in the Kursk region. A resident of Kursk region, 64-year-old Zoya, said that Ukrainian soldiers who entered her village on August 12 were friendly about civilians.

According to her, the first soldiers who went to the house shared with her husband a pack of cigarettes and offered their help. "These were really good guys," she said. Others say that as the fighting increases, Ukrainian soldiers assume that locals can be potential informants and publish their location. Zoya said that their husband had ended food, had to dig the frozen potatoes in the garden. During one of these cases, a drone exploded next to her husband.

The man died in her arms in a few minutes, the journalists of the woman's word. In February, a rocket fell to a school in Sudzh, where about one hundred displaced persons from various Kursk villages were located. Four were killed. Both sides of the war were accused of attacking each other. Ukraine has published evidence indicating Russia's possible guilt. According to eyewitnesses, Ukrainian soldiers evacuated from the scene of the tragedy.