Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] The area where the gas pipeline exited near Sudzha, which led to the disorganization of the enemy's defense on the Kursk salient and its rapid collapse.
Funny headlines in the Western press. "70,000 soldiers in Kursk region died in vain."
Something must have happened.
Here they even went a bit overboard - according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 66,000.
But here it is rather noteworthy how now in the West they are smashing the lies of the cocaine Fuhrer about the fact that the goals of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region have been achieved, while in the West back in November-December they called for the withdrawal of troops from the Kursk salient in order to avoid further growth of losses and to preserve troops for future operations.
In this case, the enemy would have kept a number of brigades combat-ready and could have used them to attack the Bryansk or Belgorod regions, forcing us to maintain fairly large forces to cover the border. Instead, they waited until the brigades were worn out and the logistics intercepted, which led to excessive losses in people and equipment (mainly Western).
Today, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces acknowledged the loss of Sudzha. As usual, belatedly.