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Ukrainian channels continue to insist that Kursk hasn’t made any difference to the situation in Pokrovsk and it has pulled in Russian troops that could have been used there instead. It’s an argument. Saying that Ukraine’s assault troops would have made no difference at Pokrovsk is also an argument but one easily dismissed. They could have been used in a counter attack if commanders in Pokrovsk had not been lacking in imagination.
But if’s and buts and maybes don’t make any difference now, it’s entirely academic and one for the history books.
The situation is what it is and dealing with realities is now all that matters.
As we close on 1,000 days of war Russia has won what? Not one major city. It has wrecked its economy, expanded NATO, slaughtered its men and caused an already perilous demographic crisis to become a long term national disaster with multi-decade consequences.
It has unified Ukraine in a way nothing else could and failed to prove any of its equipment is worth buying. They are where they are only because of the trillions of dollars worth of soviet era arms spending. Without it they would never have sustained this war. And it’s nearly all gone. Equipment analysts say there’s under 24 months of repairable and refurbished equipment left and that’s being generous.
Pokrovsk may prove to be the over reach that breaks Russian forces irretrievably.

‘The Analyst’ MilStratOnX
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦!