17 Dec, 2024
Kiev’s troops report abysmal conditions during Kursk incursion – Economist
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is pushing troops forward despite incurring heavy casualties on Russian territory
Ukrainian forces are complaining about terrible conditions in Russia’s Kursk Region, where they are struggling against the military superiority of their opponents, according to a report by The Economist.
Russia has a “massive” advantage in manpower and military hardware, while Ukrainians are having to endure pest infestations, bad weather, and enemy attacks, the British magazine said on Monday, citing interviews with troops on the ground.
“Rain, slush, snow, cold, mud, beetles, worms, rats, and glide bombs,” an NCO with Ukraine’s 95th Air Assault Brigade said of the situation. “In Kursk, death is always close; it practically holds your hand.”
“Every unit in Kursk has switched to defense,” an artillery commander with the 82nd Air Assault Brigade told the outlet.
Ukrainian journalists working for a local newspaper in the area bordering Kursk Region no longer cover the incursion because they know “too much” to toe the official line that it was “Ukraine’s great and only triumph of 2024,” they told.