Southfront posted: “https://southfront.press/battle-for-kursk-entered-its-turning-point-18/” about recent advances in Kursk.
I tried to comment but got ‘comment too long’ so I’ve put it here so’s I can put the link as a comment and still say all I want to say.
my comment:
I get the feeling now that the allies (russia and donbas ukrainians) are getting serious about this kursk thing and finally interdicting that supply road.
It is ridiculous that kiev can continue to supply pogrebki with rotation and reinforcement, food, ammunition, water, vehicles, weapons after traversing a 60km road that’s supposedly completely under control of the allies.
Supposedly.
Drones everywhere. Satellite view. Command of the air: view from aircraft. Every kind of weapon from infiltration squad RPG to Lancet via drones, remote mining, helicopter tank busting gunships.
NOT: ‘ridiculous’ if we don’t have all these things but we’ve been told for a year (!) that we do.
So it’s been paradoxical and worrying. We are told lies? Or the commander there is no good? Or high command is not supporting the commander? What?
We got the feeble excuse that it is deliberate, that we’re sucking them in to a kill zone. No, I don’t believe it. If you have the power and the command to suck them in then they come just as far as you want them to come and by the time they reach that far there’s nothing left.
But they came as far as they wanted and still had enough left at the limit there to mount attacks! Attacks!
Now it begins to look like we are getting serious.
But it is still somewhat mysterious.
All the progress now seems to hinge on the progress south through Sverdlikovo to Novenke which, they are saying puts the road under ‘fire control’.
That’s the ‘R200’ or ‘H07’ road and that’s the one we’re talking about. The 60km exposed journey from Sumy to the front north of Malaya Loknya.
Now they are within about 5km of it at Novenka.
In flat country you can see that far.. that’s the horizon.
So what are they saying? That we can’t have ‘fire control’ until we are close enough to see it with the naked eye?
That all this stuff about drones and satellite and air dominance and artillery spotting and remote mining and infiltration groups, etc. etc. is nothing, is a rumour, a myth?
That in fact things are as they ever were and you need soldiers within eyesight of the place before you can dominate it?
I’m asking. Not telling. Asking.
Because there seem to be conflicting narratives. Together they don’t make sense.
But, hey, it looks like something is happening now. So that’s good. Let’s get it done.
The sooner it is done the sooner we can all settle down.