Kateryna Besedina
Superb Ukrainian intelligence and U.S.-provided weaponry are being credited for enabling the rapid advance of Ukrainian forces into Russian territory over the past week. Some analysts believe they could move even faster if Washington allowed them to use the most sophisticated weapons at their disposal.
The Ukrainian troops continued their advance through the Kursk region on Wednesday, Day 9 of the first such incursion onto Russian soil since World War II. Ukrainian forces now control up to 1,000 square kilometers of land and more than 70 settlements inside Russia.
“The grouping of defense forces continues to conduct an offensive operation on the territory of the Kursk region,” Ukraine’s top military commander, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, told President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a video conference on Wednesday. “Since the beginning of this day, Ukrainian troops have advanced from one to two kilometers.”
Vladislav Seleznyov, a former spokesman for the Ukrainian armed forces’ general staff, told VOA’s Russian Service that Ukrainian intelligence and the U.S.-provided High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, known as HIMARS, had been critical to the stunning advance.
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