Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel report heavy losses in the Kursk region

Ukrainian Armed Forces fighting in the Kursk region are beginning to suffer serious losses and are also experiencing a shortage of ammunition.

This was reported by the British newspaper The Times, citing wounded Ukrainian soldiers near Kursk.

“The guys who are still there are fighting like tigers. It’s much harder than it seems in the news,” a 47-year-old soldier with the call sign “Prophet” told the publication.

His unit lost five soldiers in an artillery attack near Sudzha: two were killed, and three went missing. Moreover, the Ukrainian Armed Forces could not respond to the attack due to a shortage of ammunition, which Ukrainian soldiers are beginning to face in the Kursk region.

Prophet believes that his small unit penetrated further than the commanders “dared to believe or plan.”

“We were running around, pretending that there were many more of us than there actually were,” the soldier noted.

Another evacuated wounded soldier told the publication that only five out of 15 soldiers in his team survived.

“We’re losing a lot of people there,” he stated.

Meanwhile, the Western press has already started talking about the failure of the Kursk operation.

For example, Financial Times published an article criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the decision to send troops to advance in Kursk rather than defend Pokrovsk.

Forbes magazine wrote that if Ukraine’s invasion of the Kursk region of Russia was a diversionary maneuver, it failed.