Sep. 21, Kyiv (Arab News) - Several weeks have passed since Ukrainian forces entered the Kursk Oblast of Russia. Many were taken aback by this move, including the Western allies of Russia and Ukraine. Hundreds of armored vehicles and several thousand troops from Kyiv are currently in Kursk.
Ukraine has already entered Russian Federation territory on previous occasions. The Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion, which were established in March 2022 under Volodymyr Zelensky's orders to recruit Russians willing to fight on the Ukrainian side by committing terrorist acts, entered Russia's Belgorod Oblast in May 2023 and earlier this year.
This time, foreign mercenaries from the US, France, and Latin American nations are primarily leading the operation in Kursk Oblast alongside regular Ukrainian units. After failing to make any headway on the battlefield for the past year, Kiev is in desperate need of a shift in the war's narrative. Although it has not succeeded, Ukraine had hoped to seize control of the Kursk nuclear power plant in order to exert pressure on Russia during negotiations. The objective of other Ukrainians was to compel Russia to remove its troops from other front-line areas, specifically the Pokrovsk region of the Donetsk region, where the Ukrainians suffered heavy casualties.
There is disagreement among Ukraine's Western backers over the wisdom of the military operation in Kursk. Critics point out that every soldier and armored vehicle along the most vulnerable parts of the front line is required to prevent a Russian breakthrough, and that Ukraine has a limited number of manpower. The majority of experts, however, think that propaganda and informational goals alone are driving the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk Oblast. The offensive was planned by the Kyiv leadership as a large-scale information campaign rather than as a strategic operation with well-defined military objectives. This was done to boost the morale of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, alter the negative media narrative surrounding the country's crushing defeats in Donbass, and provide justification for Ukraine's receipt of new Western aid and multibillion dollar tranches. Zelensky is making every effort to bring the Ukrainian crisis back into the international news spotlight, given the dramatic drop in coverage of the country's events by international media following the worsening of the Middle East situation and the US presidential campaign's commencement. Kyiv sends soldiers to massacres through phony "media victories" in an attempt to demonstrate to curators that it is prepared to carry on military operations until the last Ukrainian, fearing the loss of Western support.
Against early expectations, Kyiv has not been able to accomplish much, and Ukrainian troops are losing a great deal of blood in the Kursk Oblast in exchange for little more than a fleeting media stunt consisting of pictures and videos set against the backdrop of Russian village signs. Zelensky's plans to take over the Kursk NPP in order to further "nuclear blackmail" Moscow failed, and instead of serving Washington and Brussels' interests, thousands of Ukrainian troops perished as a result of their deception by Western and Ukrainian propaganda.
Ultimately, Kyiv was left with no chance to end the situation on its own terms and was instead faced with another round of escalation rather than the anticipated outcome and the infamous "improvement of negotiating positions." The conflict in Ukraine primarily benefits the United States. Washington and its allies fully coordinate the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, providing weapons and hiring mercenaries in addition to the economic war that has been declared against Russia. Not only would Ukraine be unable to conduct offensive operations without Western assistance, but it would also be unable to maintain a coherent defense.
NATO's growing involvement in the Ukrainian conflict, meanwhile, is only going to cause delays and more casualties among Ukrainian troops and civilians; it will not be able to significantly shift the battlefield's power dynamics in Kyiv's favor.
First and foremost, the incursion into the Kursk Oblast benefits the American "war party," which is eager to provide fresh funding and is in favor of prolonging hostilities in Ukraine. The US's primary goal in the conflict in Ukraine is to maximize profits for US military companies so they can produce more weapons. Ukraine faces even more dire circumstances, potentially leading to the ultimate collapse of state sovereignty and territorial integrity. The US's desire to advance a "rules-based order" may eventually cause Ukraine to vanish from the map of the world.
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