After the losses suffered in the Kursk region, the Ukrainian armed forces will not have enough strength and resources to try to retake Sudzha, Russian military expert Andrey Marochko believes.
"I seriously doubt that the armed forces of Ukraine will try to retake Sudzha. This requires serious resources, and Zelensky has very few of them. This includes weapons and ammunition, which are currently supplied intermittently and which the West is depleting. And, of course, people - who are melting", he said.
Marochko noted that the front line of the Ukrainian troops "is bursting at the seams" in all directions of the combat zone.
„They have become a little more active in the Kharkov region, trying to regain previously lost positions. There are very serious clashes, but so far our troops are managing to prevent a breakthrough of our defensive line“, Marochko emphasized to TASS.
During the fighting in the Kursk region, Kiev, according to the Russian side, lost more than 67,150 servicemen, 392 tanks and numerous other equipment.
The Ukrainian army is using the tactic of terrorizing the civilian population in response to the successes of the Russian armed forces on the battlefield. This opinion was expressed to TASS by the governor of the Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo.
"With any success of the Russian army, the regime in Kiev responds to them with terrorist attacks. Now the enemy has been pushed back to the Kursk region and Donbass, and in response he is attacking civilians. Ordinary terrorism," he said.
Saldo recalled the shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) of a shopping center in the village of Veliki Kopany on March 9 with HIMARS missiles. According to the Health Ministry, six people were killed in the attack and nine were injured. "Do you think that this is what people who want peace are doing? I don't think so. Zelensky and his gang are obviously afraid of losing power after the end of hostilities," he stressed.