Flipping the narrative The Kursk attack has humiliated Putin and broken the stalemate
The Guardian Weekly|August 23, 2024
When video footage of the Ukrainian incursion into Russia's Kursk region began appearing on social media, a joke started doing the rounds with Vladimir Putin asking Stalin what he should do about the German tanks rolling towards Kursk.
Orysia Lutsevych
Flipping the narrative The Kursk attack has humiliated Putin and broken the stalemate

Stalin's ghost says the recipe for victory is simple: send the best Ukrainian divisions into battle, as he did in 1943, then ask the US for tanks and money. But neither of these options is available to Putin. He is now facing the Ukrainian army on his own soil, and regards the US as his primary enemy.

Every year since the Russian invasion, Ukraine has surprised the world. First, at the start of the war in 2022, its forces repelled a Russian assault on the capital, Kyiv. Then, in 2023, they liberated Kherson. Now, their tanks have rolled into Russian territory. Ukrainian armed forces already control about 1,000 sq km of land and more than 80 settlements. Russian flags have been taken down; in the city of Sudzha, a military administration has been set up to govern the territory, and hundreds of prisoners of war have been captured.

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