Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said in an interview with CNN that Ukraine wanted to prevent a new Russian offensive with the operation in Kursk region, Komersant ukrainskyi
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Syrsky said that Russia was planning to launch a new attack on Ukraine from the Kursk region before Kyiv’s sudden invasion across the border.
He believes that the Kursk operation was successful.
“It reduced the threat of an enemy offensive. We prevented them from acting. We moved the fighting to the enemy’s territory so that [the enemy] could feel what we feel every day,” Syrsky said in an interview in which he gave a frank assessment of the war.
According to the general, the main objectives of the operation in the Kursk region are as follows:
- to prevent Russia from using the Kursk region as a springboard for a new offensive;
- to divert Russian forces from other areas;
- create a security zone and prevent shelling of civilian objects;
- capture the occupiers;
- raise the morale of the Ukrainian troops and the nation as a whole.
Syrsky also reminded that the Ukrainian Armed Forces operation forced the Russians to deploy tens of thousands of their military to the Kursk region. Among them are soldiers of the best airborne troops in Russia.