10/2/24
1. The Kursk incursion over time has shown to be a purely propaganda & morale based attack, with its main achievement showing that the Russian army is more over-stretched than the world believes. While it was well planned, the vast majority of the temporary gains was done in 48 hours. By withdrawing troops from the Donbass Ukraine also weakened it and lost a lot of ground in the East.
Interestingly the Russians did not care much about reducing the pocket, with is mostly farmland with the largest settlement being a town with a pre-war population of 6,000 people. They have surrounded it and have slowly reduced it but moved very few units to confront it. So the propaganda claims from Ukraine that they are trying to 'weaken' Russian forces in the East has over time proven to be another fraud.
2. Russian incursion in the Kharkiv direction has been static fighting for months with no real changes.
3. Glacial but continuous positional creep forward in the Donbass
4. Loss of fortress Niu York & penetration into fortress Toretsk
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The most serious area is the Pokrovsk salient which is constantly growing and eating up all the towns in the area.
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The Russians finally took Vulhedar in recent weeks. The fortress had repelled at least 2 major armored attacks over the past year with heavy russian tank losses. The only way to take the small city was to positional creep around it and force the defenders to retreat.