Meanwhile, Ukraine continues its offensive in the Russian Kursk region. Russia has not yet given an effective response to prevent this incursion.
Nuevo Russia’s massive attack on Ukraine. It is the third time in the last four days that Moscow intensifies its offensive against the neighboring country. It was produced with drones, most of these intercepted by the Ukrainian Air Force.
In total, Russia It would have fired five missiles and 74 Shahed-type drones. They targeted Ukrainian targets but many of these were shot down by Zelensky’s Army. Ukraine stopped two missiles and 60 drones. In addition, 14 Russian drones would not have reached their targets.
Long range attacks
Los long range attacks contra civilian targets by Russia are common since invasion in February 2022, reason why kyiv insists on rreceive greater support from the West.
These latest offensives occur when Ukraine maintains a strong fight against Russia since it occurred surprise raid in the Kursk regionwhich has meant a hard blow against Vladimir Putin.
Why is Russia having difficulty stopping the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk?
After three weeks of fighting, Russia is still trying to evict Ukrainian Forces from the Kursk region. The response is being surprisingly slow. It is the first occupation of its territory since the Second World War.
With the bulk of its Army pressing in, the Kremlin appears to lack sufficient reserves for now to expel kyiv forces. The president Vladimir Putin does not appear to consider the attack a serious enough threat to justify the Withdrawal of troops from the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbasits priority objective.
What is Putin’s goal now?
“Putin is focused on the collapse of the Ukrainian state, which he believes will automatically make any territorial control irrelevant,” he wrote. Tatiana Stanova, principal investigator at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center.
Months after launching the large scale invasion of UkrainePutin illegally annexed the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporiyia and Jershon as part of Russian territory, and its total capture has been one of its main priorities. In June he declared that kyiv had to withdraw its forces from these regions which it controls as a condition for engaging in peace talks, a demand that Ukraine rejects.
“By gathering strength to deal with the Ukrainian incursion“Russia is doing everything possible to avoid taking units out of its own offensive in Donbas,” says Nigel Gould-Davies of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
“Russia currently believes that it can ccontain the threat on your own soil without compromising its most important objective in Ukraine. Even while the Ukrainian forces heading towards Kursk On August 6, Russian troops continued their slow advance around the strategic city of Pokrovsk and other parts of the Donetsk area.
“Russia is very interested in ccontinue attacks towards Pokrovsk and not take resources from Pokrovsk to Kursk,” said Nico Lange, senior researcher at the Center for European Policy Analysisbased in Washington.
Unlike Pokrovsk, where Ukrainian forces have built extensive fortifications, other parts of Donetsk still under Ukrainian control are less protected and could be significantly more vulnerable to Russian attack if Pokrovsk falls.
