Ukraine began building a powerful fortified area in the Kursk and has no intention of leaving

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Ukraine has begun to create a powerful fortified area in the occupied territory of the Kursk region, which includes a field hospital, full-fledged strongholds and dugouts. This is reported by the Telegram channel "VChK-OGPU", which is connected to Russian security forces.. According to information received from the Russians, the Ukrainian military continues its offensive and is conducting military operations in several directions at once. Local media and Z-war correspondents publish information with a significant delay, which is due to the delay in incoming information. Ukrainian sabotage groups are actively operating in the region, striking at the rear areas of the Russians, setting up ambushes, and also confusing the Russian command. According to the channel's sources, the main battles are taking place in the area of the village of Korenevo, which is located 30 km from Sudzha.

Ukraine may have taken a "first step" toward a strategy change in its defense against the Russian invasion. That's how Jen Spindel, assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire in the US, described the recent developments in western Russia's Kursk region.

"Ukraine cannot continue to fight this war in the same way it has been for the past two years. It just simply doesn't have the manpower or weapon stores to do so," said Spindel, a foreign policy and security expert.

"Russia is much bigger, and has a larger military, and Ukraine can't continue fighting Russia on equal footing," she said. "It needs to embrace much more of an asymmetric style war, and bring the conflict into Russia, if it wants to have hope of staying in the fight."

Spindel said this means that instead of confronting the Russian army, in many respects superior, on the open battlefield, Ukraine would need to employ tactics more appropriate to the strengths and armaments available to Ukrainian forces — exactly what appears to be happening in Kursk.

"I see this operation in Russia as Ukraine's attempt to slightly shift its strategy," she told DW. "It is showing that Russian territory is no longer off-limits, and that Ukraine will attack Russian territory to force Russia to divert its forces from bombing and causing destruction in Ukraine."