No risk of encirclement for Ukrainian troops in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, Syrskyi says

Ukrainian items aren’t at present below risk of encirclement in Russia's Kursk Oblast, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi stated on March 10.

Syrskyi's assertion follows studies on Russian and North Korean troops launching an assault on the Ukrainian-held city of Sudzha in Kursk Oblast. Russian forces have made a breakthrough south of the Ukrainian-held city of Sudzha in Kursk Oblast, doubtlessly threatening to chop off a number of the Ukrainian positions within the Russian area.

Russian troops have destroyed Ukrainian troops' logistics in Kursk Oblast, and Ukrainian troopers face the chance of encirclement, a Ukrainian soldier and a medic deployed within the area advised the Kyiv Impartial on situation of anonymity on March 7.

"There may be at present no risk of encirclement of our items in Kursk Oblast. The items are taking well timed measures to maneuver to favorable protection traces," Syrskyi wrote on Fb.

Ukrainian forces "management the scenario" on the border between Sumy and Kursk oblasts, based on Syrskyi. But, a number of settlements on the border not exist, as they’ve been destroyed by Russian assaults, he added.

Russia has been struggling heavy losses each in personnel and tools, based on Syrskyi. Close to the village of Plekhove, Russian forces misplaced an infantry battalion in 4 days of combating, he stated.

Ukraine's commander-in-chief added that he had determined to bolster Ukrainian troops in Kursk Oblast with "the required forces and means," together with digital warfare and drones.

Considerations concerning the Ukrainian operation in Kursk Oblast, ongoing since August 2024, have mounted over the weekend amid studies of Russian advances.

The event got here shortly after the U.S. minimize off navy and intelligence help for Ukraine, allegedly to push Kyiv to the negotiating desk.

A possible lack of the Kursk salient or Russian advances in Sumy Oblast would seemingly weaken Ukraine's negotiating place because it prepares for preliminary rounds of talks with the U.S. in Saudi Arabia.

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