Ukraine Sending Reinforcements to Kursk Region Amid Russian Advances

The units are taking timely measures to maneuver to more favorable defense lines,

Syrsky said

Currently, there is no threat of encirclement of our units in the Kursk region."

Addressing concerns circulating in Ukrainian media that his forces may be encircled in Kursk, he said

A number of settlements on the border, the names of which appear in the reports of Russian propagandists, no longer actually exist - they have been destroyed by the aggressor's shelling,

Syrskyi said

Despite the involvement of a significant number of Russian troops in the offensive, reinforced by North Korean infantry, the enemy is suffering significant losses in manpower and equipment,

he added

The front has been pierced,

said Rybar,

Over the past four days, Russian troops have cleared as much territory in the Kursk region as they sometimes could not even clear in a couple of months,

said a Russian blogger close to the defence ministry who goes by the name Rybar

Michael Kofmaninternational Peace senior fellow

The Russian offensive effort in Donetsk has stalled in recent months due to poor weather, exhaustion among Russian forces, and effective Ukrainian adaptation to the way Russian troops have been fighting,

said Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington

We stocked up on ammunition, conducted, let’s say, a mini-artillery preparation, identified in which parts of the village the enemy was located, and delivered a massive strike there,

said Major Taras, who like many soldiers asked to be identified by his first name in accordance with military protocol

The Russians are constantly regrouping their forces, replenishing losses and redeploying units from other directions,

he said

We see their declining troop quality and quantity, which, fortunately for us, is worsening,

he said

There have even been cases where the enemy crawls forward with mines strapped to their backs to blow up our positions — crawling under a building, throwing in mines, and detonating them,

he said

Some of these groups have been destroyed, while some may still be hiding in the village until they are detected and destroyed,

DeepState stated

The Russian Federation's armed forces are continuing to rout groups of the Ukrainian army on the territory of Kursk region,

the statement said

Dmitry Medvedevformer russian President

The lid of the smoking cauldron is almost closed,

former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Telegram

I am surprised by people who really think that Russia could lose,

Alaudinov said

The situation (for Ukraine in Kursk) is very bad. … If Ukrainian forces are not able to restore the situation quickly, this could be the moment where the Kursk salient begins to finally close into an encircled pocket."

Pasi Paroinen, a military analyst with the Black Bird Group in Finland, told Reuters

Russian forces likely intend to leverage limited advances into Sumy Oblast to completely expel Ukrainian forces from Kursk Oblast among other objectives."

The Institute for the Study of War said in its March 7 assessment of Russia's campaign