So Ukraine lost today a village and 80% of a town in Pokrovsk

Todays Russian advances in the direction of Pokrovsk. pic.twitter.com/34Pjk3QLSt

— KalibratedMaps (@Kalibrated_Maps) August 7, 2024

Pro Ukrainian map showing things to be even.

That would mean that Pokrovsk is like 12 km away from that location and Russia is about to enter a city.

But Ukraine launched an epic attack towards Kursk that nobody seems to understand

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/world/europe/ukraine-russia-cross-border-assault.html

Ukrainian shelling and bombings have targeted Russia's border regions of Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk, but cross-border attacks have been rare. The first such attacks reported took place in May of last year, carried out by anti-Kremlin Russian fighters aligned with Ukraine. A similar ground attack took place this March.

On both occasions, the attacks were seen as an attempt to unnerve the Russian public and undermine President Vladimir V. Putin's efforts to insulate them from the war.

But Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, wrote on social media that those attacks "had little effect on the fighting" in Ukraine and "did not have serious domestic political ramifications for Putin."

He and other military experts said that if the aim of this week's attack was to draw Russian troops away from other parts of the front, it had little chance of succeeding.

"Russia already has greater forces/conventional capabilities in the area, better command and control, and it has conscript units that can be deployed, which are not used in Ukraine," Mr. Lee said. "It is unlikely this operation will force Russia to pull significant forces from Ukraine."

Mr. Paroinen said that a few hundred Ukrainian troops, supported by armored vehicles, had most likely crossed the border.

Military analysts said the attack could be an attempt to divert Russian units from the front lines, thus relieving the pressure on Ukrainian troops struggling to contain Russian advances. But they added that Russia's Army had ample reserves of troops to commit to the fight and that the attack risked further stretching Ukraine's already outnumbered troops.

"Operationally and strategically, this attack makes absolutely zero sense," Mr. Paroinen said. "This seems like a gross waste of men and resources badly needed elsewhere."

And today at 20:00 in Ukrainian time they announced evacuation in Sumy region

So Ukrainian now expect to be kicked out from Kursk and start fighting in Sumy region

Khohols are genius

Now Podolyak saying that such operations will push Russian to peace talk

If Ukrainian goal was to capture Russian NPP they failed at it since the lost the effect of surprise and now the fight has slowed down they will either pull back or continue pumping men in that offensive because entrenching will be hard now especially when they lost majority of AD they used to cover them self

This guy described the situation good. It's just another Krinky for Ukraine.

It's interesting that for Ukraine morale is more important than gear and soldiers lives

There is kinda also hunting season opened since mercs that ain't fighting in Ukraine are rushing to fight Ukrainian in Kursk

If Ukrainian won't have any meaningful progress tomorrow it's gg

Just noticed that they actually lost also 60% or so control over another town