Zelensky conferma la presenza nella regione di Belgorod, segnando la seconda incursione ucraina in Russia

From the article: In late March, Ukrainian troops launched a raid into Russia’s Belgorod Oblast.

The small-scale incursion into yet another Russian region may be Ukraine’s attempt to alleviate the pressure from the country’s troops still fighting in the adjacent Kursk Oblast, military experts say.

Following Russia’s recapture of the logistics hub of Sudzha in mid-March, Ukrainian troops were forced to withdraw from a substantial part of Russia’s Kursk Oblast, which was in Kyiv’s hands for over seven months.

Now, using both mechanized attacks with engineering vehicles to clear obstacles and mines, as well as small-scale infiltration tactics, Kyiv has been attempting a new cross-border operation, said John Hardie, deputy director of the Russia program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

He added that it is unclear which side controls the villages in no-man’s land near the border.

“In general, it doesn’t look like any gains Ukraine has made have been very significant in terms of territory taken,” Hardie told the Kyiv Independent.

While it is too early to draw conclusions, the scale of the Belgorod Oblast raid and the proximity to Russian units already fighting in Kursk Oblast likely won’t allow “a huge diversion of Russian forces,” according to Hardie.

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