Too often it’s taken waves of frontline complaints to get attention to problems in the field and Ukraine clearly has a problem with old soviet era mentality trained officers who need retiring. They have no place in this war anymore.
It’s also a little bit damning that Kursk which has gained hectares of farmland, had the general staff’s attention while in effect the Pokrovsk front burned and was left to less than capable commanders. Now that’s been rectified - just about as last minute as you could manage. I can’t help but see the history books condemning Kursk not just as a strategic folly but as having been responsible in yet another way, for what’s gone on in the central front.
Thank god that sense and resolve has been restored to the centre and that Syrski I hope, has learned a valuable lesson about not taking his eye off the ball.
We can only be intensely grateful for the junior officers and frontline troops who have held the line despite terrible odds and conditions, who had the guts to speak up and save the day.

‘The Analyst’ MilStratOnX
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!