Spoiling the enemy’s celebration is a terrible reason to put one’s own troops at risk. Of course, it’s almost expected from Zelensky. From Simplicius at simplicius76.substack.com:
Yesterday Ukrainian forces again tried to attack the Kursk region, this time in the Glushkovo area near the border town of Tetkino, further northwest from their previous entry attempts.
At 7: 00, the enemy made another attempt to attack in the area of the Novy Put farm in the direction of Glushkovo. IMR, two M113s, Bradley, Kozak went on the attack. Earlier, 2 days ago, only one T-64BV with a mine trawl was seen and destroyed in this area.
Units of the 21st mechanized and 107th TRO-one brigade of the 92nd BAT operate in this area from the AFU side. Specifically, a separate 29th battalion went on the offensive. UAV units are represented by: “Witchers”, the “Wings to Hell” squad, the “S. O. Team” group, the “Chorny Strizh” company. Art. support is provided by the self-propelled guns division from the 21st brigade. As usual, the special forces of the special operations forces “West-1”, noted in Kurilovka and Plekhovo in 2024, also operates.
The goal of the strike on Glushkovo and practical is to cut off our forces advancing on Basovka-Belovody with a call to Yunakovka. And a purely media goal is to ruin May 9.
Under Tetkino, an armored group of one tank and an armored vehicle went on the offensive from Iskriskovshchina and Budka to cut off Tetkino from the north. The enemy is met by our airborne forces, the armored group is on fire, but the enemy continues to bring infantry on ATVs. Suicidal attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can last for a long time – the enemy infantry on the ground does not have an operational situation and it is taken to the “nearest landing” with a simple task to hold.
The objective appears to be to “spoil Putin’s May 9th glory”, or add an edge of embarrassment to the festivities—coupled with the planned drone terror campaign across the Moscow region.
