Washington Post about the feasibility of the operation

Despite everything, Putin is trying to win back Kurshchyna in order to take the “trump card” out of Ukraine's hands in the likely future negotiations.

Ukraine is desperately clinging to a piece of Kurshchyna territory that it still controls. Biden's permission to strike deep into the Russian Federation with American-made missiles, as well as muddy conditions and natural barriers, including rivers, helped Ukraine to hold some lines.

But the massive deployment of Russian forces in Kurshchyna helped Moscow regain about 40 percent of what Ukraine controlled at the beginning of the operation. This is stated in the article of The Washington Post.

Putin downplayed the scope of Ukraine's operation in Kurshchyna, calling it a useless side effect of the main hostilities.

“But nearly five months later, as the fighting intensifies, the battle for this corner of western Russia has proven that Ukraine's cross-border incursion has become…