Ukraine faced a sobering defeat Sunday when Russian troops drove the Ukrainian military out from almost all of the Russian region of Kursk.
Ukrainian forces had attacked the Russian province last summer in an attempt to unbalance the Russian army. That strategy appears to have faltered in the face of an unrelenting assault by Russian forces.
Ukraine now controls about 30 square miles of Kursk territory from a high of 500 square miles less than a year ago. Russia deployed drones and troops from North Korea to implement the successful reclamation of its territory.
While the Ukrainian retreat is a blow to the country’s war effort, it is remarkable that the Eastern European nation was able to hold out for so long.
Brent Sadler, a senior research fellow with the Allison Center for National Security of The Heritage Foundation, explained how reality differed greatly…
