Again, this post and the previous post show you have a serious misunderstanding on why Ukraine is in Kursk, even tho I tried to explain to you 3 times now.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT LAND, THIS IS NOT ABOUT PR OR MAKE PUTIN LOOK LIKE AN IDIOTAND THIS IS NOT ABOUT RUSSIA ATTACK US AND WE ATTACK THEM.
This is about holding that piece of land hostage. In a perfect world, it would be like you said, Russia would have been able to deal with both at the same time, but was it a perfect world we are living in? At least in this war?
Ukraine is forcing Russia to choose, they either continue their attack in Donbas and ignore Kursk, then day by day, Ukraine will entrench into Kursk, and it make it very hard to dispel them later, and do you know what the Russian did the first week in Kursk? They dig defensive trench 46 km from the border, it never a good sign you need to dig defensive trench somewhere
INSIDE your territories.
It's almost 3 weeks now, and Ukraine is still progressing in Kursk, as this ISW map shown
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And that's bad because Russia would have to start at "Line of Contact" aka the frontline, and it will take a lot longer to go over that frontline, and in most Ukrainian city case, it's between 4 to 6 months. Now, If this is the true situation as of today, then basically Ukraine can make their own defensive fortification and anchor them between Sudzha-Malaya Lokyna-Lubimovka, and bear in mind, this 3 city is INSIDE the line of contact, which mean Russia would first need to breach the line of contact BEFORE reaching the defensive line, which give them weeks, if not months to deal with fortification. And then you have a second defensive line that Russian dug before the incursion, that 2 lines alone would take Russia months, if not years to go over, and you can't retake those region without crossing those 2 defensive line.
The issue here is, it would be very hard to deal with now already, if Russia managed to stabilised the front, but it wasn't, which mean Ukraine will continue to push inside Kursk, and if Russia want to wait until they completed their conquest in Donbas, I don't know how or where that line will be then. I just know this is not going to go away unless Russia go in.
Ukrainian is forcing the Russian to choose, whether they want to reinforce Kursk, and take pressure off Donbas, so they can counterattack. Bear in mind, it will be YEARS for Russia to be in anyway threaten Donbas, they have time to wait for it, on the other hand, if Russia were to not reinforce Kursk and let the Ukrainian run wild, even if Donbas was captured completely, the time Russia let the Ukrainian to make defensive fortification would mean they will most likely have to either bite the bullet and lose more men taking those land back, or negotiate with Ukraine to trade if they don't want further loss. That would mean the Russian that died taking Donbas meaningless.
And Provotsk is only important if the Russian managed to take it in a timely manner, because if they moved all the supplies from Provotsk, then it will not be a "supply hub", it will be just "some place", they won't take Provotsk at least for a few months, a lot of time to move stuff out.
If you can't see how bad this is for the Russian, and still think this is just a PR Ops. Well.......
