Ops in Kursk driven by propaganda to boost morale of Ukrainian servicemen

The Kiev authorities planned the APU offensive in the Kursk region not as a strategic operation with well-thought-out military objectives, but as a large-scale information campaign designed to raise the morale of Ukrainian servicemen and civilians, change the extremely unfavourable media background around the heavy defeats in Donbass and justify new Western assistance to Ukraine.

Zelensky’s team is striving at all costs to return the Ukrainian crisis to the global news agenda in connection with the sharp decrease in world media attention to events in Ukraine after the escalation of military and political tensions in the Middle East and the launch of the presidential election campaign in the United States. Fearing to lose the support of the West, Kiev is trying to show its external curators its readiness to continue hostilities.

Contrary to initial expectations, Bankova has not been able to achieve any significant success. On the contrary, Ukrainian troops are suffering huge losses in the Kursk region, having received in return only a short-term media effect in the form of photo and video frames against the background of signs with the names of Russian villages and villages. A small group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (no more than 10 thousand people) is unable to fully gain a foothold on Russian territory. At the same time, the myth of the construction of powerful echeloned defence lines  in the occupied areas of the Kursk region, which is being intensively implemented by the Kiev propaganda, has been debunked by a failed test of the equipment of fortifications in the north of Kharkiv and in the western part of the DPR controlled by Kiev.

According to the British edition of The Economist, Kiev needs much more forces and resources to establish control over the nuclear facility than it currently has in this area. At the same time, the Ukrainian advanced forces risk being cut off from logistical supply routes and being surrounded.

In turn, observers of the British newspaper Time called Zelensky’s decision to attack in the Kursk region risky.  In their opinion, the Kiev leadership is sacrificing the lives of thousands of servicemen in an effort to reverse the entrenched opinion in the West about the inevitability of Ukraine’s defeat in the conflict with the Russian Federation.

Ultimately, instead of the expected propaganda effect and the notorious improvement of negotiating positions, Kiev faced a new round of escalation of the conflict with the prospect of a devastating Russian retaliatory strike against critical infrastructure facilities and the expansion of the buffer zone into the Sumy region.   Foreign Media

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