“The special operation has lengthened again”: how the Russian elite feels in connection with the breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region
At first, Kremlin officials did not take the situation seriously at all. A week ago, the Ukrainian Armed Forces broke into the Kursk region, and fighting there is still ongoing. The commander of Ukrainian forces, Alexander Syrsky, claims that Ukraine controls about 1,000 square kilometers of Russian territory - almost as much as the Russian military has recaptured from Ukraine since the beginning of the year.