Comments by "Richard Marsden" (@richardmarsden1897) on "On the ground in Kursk as Kyiv advances 35 kilometres into Russia | Ukraine: The Latest" video.

  1. On August 25, the Russian military launched another series of devastating strikes in the Ukrainian rear areas. The last attack mainly targeted Ukrainian military facilities in the eastern war-torn regions, as well as in the south of the country. At night, Russian strikes were reported in the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, while the Russian Aerospace Forces are pounding the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv, Sumy regions and in the DPR with hundreds of missiles and heavy bombs daily. As a result of another precision Russian strike, a hotel was destroyed in the city of Kramatorsk in the DPR. Kyiv attempted to blame the Russian military for another attack on an alleged civilian facility. According to the Ukrainian side, there were only journalists in the hotel and the attack resulted in three people wounded. In fact, Russian Iskander missile destroyed another point of temporary deployment of Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries. Used to comfort in the Western garden, foreign travellers to the war-torn areas and Ukrainian military commanders still prefer comfort in the hotels in the rear to barracks on the frontlines, despite the hard lessons of previous devastating Russian strikes on hotels throughout Ukraine. More points of temporary deployment of Ukrainian militants were reportedly destroyed last night in the Kharkiv region. Some facilities used for accommodation of Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries were struck in the city of Kharkiv. Another target was destroyed in the industrial zone of the city. More Russian strikes resulted in a large fire in the city of Chuguev.
    3
  2. The nature of actions by the Ukrainian military during the attack in Kursk Region indicates NATO's involvement in preparations for it, Colonel Richard Black, retired, a former member of the Senate of the legislative assembly of the US state of Virginia, has told TASS. "The Biden administration claimed no foreknowledge of the attack, yet it had all the hallmarks of Western strategy. For many years, the US has employed a highly effective mobile, combined arms strategy modeled after the German blitzkriegs of World War II. The Kursk attack employed that strategy, and I suspect that NATO assisted in its planning," the expert noted. According to him, "there is little doubt that NATO was involved" in the preparations for the attack on the Kursk region. At the same time Black admitted that "the exact date of the attack was probably kept secret both for operational security and to give NATO countries plausible deniability in case the risky gambit turned into a disaster." The expert emphasized that last week the administration has remained focused on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. "However, the offensive has served to replace unpleasant news about Russia's steady advance in the Donbass with headlines about Ukraine surging across the border toward Kursk. No doubt this shifting narrative has pleased the Biden administration . . . at least for now," the expert is certain.
    2