Sumy, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 13th Aug, 2024) As Ukrainian tanks and infantry poured over the Russian border last week in a shock turn of the war, one advancing serviceman revelled in a key Russian failing.
Unlike the troops that crashed into intricate Russian defensive lines that thwarted a large-scale offensive last year, the forces attacking the Kremlin’s frontier crossed quickly and easily.
“They didn’t protect the border. They only had anti-personnel mines scattered around trees at the side of the road and a few mines that they managed to quickly throw along the highways,” said the serviceman, who identified himself as Ruzhyk.
Kyiv says it has thrown thousands of troops at Russia’s Kursk region in the lightning operation that caught the Kremlin off guard and has seen Ukrainian forces capture more than two dozen Russian towns and villages.
Moscow has dispatched reinforcements to threatened frontier territories and evacuated tens of thousands of residents.
President Vladimir Putin has meanwhile vowed retribution and said the incursion was evidence that Russia is at war with the West.
The speed of Ukraine’s offensive — the largest by a foreign army inside Russia since World War II — contrasts starkly with grinding battles for individual cities that have defined Russia’s invasion now in its third year.
