The Kursk region has already cost Russia the loss of 25 thousand soldiers
Perhaps the most combat-ready formation of the Russian army was removed from the Zaporozhye direction in order to transfer it to Kursk.
Due to the Ukrainian operation in the Kursk region, Russia was forced to abandon plans to attack Zaporozhye. Ukrinform writes about this with reference to a high-ranking source in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
According to him, the Russians had to remove one of their most combat-ready units from the Zaporozhye direction and transfer it to the Kursk region in order to stop the Ukrainian offensive. The Russians also withdrew some units from the Donetsk region, including from the Pokrovsky and Kurakhovsky directions.
The publication's interlocutor claims that at the beginning of the Kursk operation, the Russians had 40 thousand of their own in that direction…
