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Military history books will famously refer to it as "Zelensky's Blunder"
In the near future people will idiomatically refer to a mistake as "doing a Zelensky"
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/4/ukraines-losses-outweigh-kursk-gains-as-russia-on-cusp-of-taking-key-town
Ukraine’s losses outweigh Kursk gains, as Russia on cusp of taking Pokrovsk
Ukraine’s diversion of troops for the Kursk attack has left parts of Donetsk vulnerable, say analysts. And Pokrovsk could fall soon to Russia.
Kyiv, Ukraine – Svitlana Menyaylo doesn’t want to hear a word about the success of Ukrainian forces in the western Russian region of Kursk.
Since August 6, Ukrainian soldiers have occupied dozens of Russian villages on more than 1,000 square kilometres (620 square miles) and are digging in to repel an imminent Russian counteroffensive.
But for Menyaylo, a seamstress from the besieged town of Pokrovsk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, the very presence of Ukrainian troops in Kursk feels like treason.
Pokrovsk, the administrative centre of a heavily industrialised agglomeration with a pre-war population of almost 400,000, is likely to be taken over by advancing Russian troops soon.
They are less than 10km (6 miles) east of it – and keep inching in every minute after months of heavy bombardment and “meat marches”, frontal attacks on Ukrainian positions that have cost Russian generals tens of thousands of servicemen.
The depopulated town and several highways and railways it straddles have served as a crucial logistical hub for the Ukrainian military, and their takeover may burst the front line open and become a propaganda triumph for the Kremlin.
The government in Kyiv “should have sent those troops [from Kursk] here to repel the orcs”, Menyaylo told Al Jazeera in a telephone interview using a derogatory term for Russian servicemen.
In the near future people will idiomatically refer to a mistake as "doing a Zelensky"
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/4/ukraines-losses-outweigh-kursk-gains-as-russia-on-cusp-of-taking-key-town
Ukraine’s losses outweigh Kursk gains, as Russia on cusp of taking Pokrovsk
Ukraine’s diversion of troops for the Kursk attack has left parts of Donetsk vulnerable, say analysts. And Pokrovsk could fall soon to Russia.
Kyiv, Ukraine – Svitlana Menyaylo doesn’t want to hear a word about the success of Ukrainian forces in the western Russian region of Kursk.
Since August 6, Ukrainian soldiers have occupied dozens of Russian villages on more than 1,000 square kilometres (620 square miles) and are digging in to repel an imminent Russian counteroffensive.
But for Menyaylo, a seamstress from the besieged town of Pokrovsk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, the very presence of Ukrainian troops in Kursk feels like treason.
Pokrovsk, the administrative centre of a heavily industrialised agglomeration with a pre-war population of almost 400,000, is likely to be taken over by advancing Russian troops soon.
They are less than 10km (6 miles) east of it – and keep inching in every minute after months of heavy bombardment and “meat marches”, frontal attacks on Ukrainian positions that have cost Russian generals tens of thousands of servicemen.
The depopulated town and several highways and railways it straddles have served as a crucial logistical hub for the Ukrainian military, and their takeover may burst the front line open and become a propaganda triumph for the Kremlin.
The government in Kyiv “should have sent those troops [from Kursk] here to repel the orcs”, Menyaylo told Al Jazeera in a telephone interview using a derogatory term for Russian servicemen.
