Surrounded by the Russian forces and cut off from their main refueling lines, there are tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers who invaded the Kursk area of ​​Russia last summer and occupied a large area of ​​territory, according to open source maps.

Ukraine’s situation in Kursk has deteriorated rapidly in the last three days, as the maps themselves show, as the Russian forces have recovered territories in the context of a counterattack that has almost divided the Ukrainian power in two.

The precarious situation for Ukraine may force its forces to retreat back to Ukraine, which would be politically difficult and psychologically painful, or to risk being captured or killed, while Kiev is accepted by the United States.

“The situation for Ukraine is very bad,” Passi, a military analyst of the Finnish team Black Bird Group, told Reuters.

“Now there is little time left until the Ukrainian forces are completely surrounded or forced to withdraw. And the retreat should take place by crossing a dangerous corridor, where they will be constantly threatened by Russian drones and artillery, “he added.

There was no official confirmation of the Russian counterattack by the Russian Ministry of Defense or the Ukrainian army, and both sides usually report developments in the field with some delay.

Carrying war to Russia

The Ukrainian invasion of Kursk last August was the most serious attack on Russian territory by the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 aimed to convey the war to ordinary Russian citizens, whom the Kremlin had tried to protect against the consequences.

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski said the operation was aimed at reducing pressure on Ukrainian forces that defend their country from Russian forces to the east, forcing Moscow to redirect resources to defend its own territory as well as to defend its own territory.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces would regain full control of Kursk by force and rejected any idea of ​​integrating the area into broader future talks.

Open source maps from Deep State, a valid Ukrainian military blog, showed Friday that about three -quarters of the Ukrainian force within Russia had now been completely surrounded.

They showed that these forces were linked to the rest of the Ukrainian force closest to the Ukrainian border through a land corridor of about 1 kilometer and less than 500 meters wide at its narrower point, as Russian forces move to cut it off.

Deep State reported late on Thursday that the Russian forces had proceeded with the nearby settlement of Kourilovka. Yuri Pontoliak, an important Russian military analyst, said the Russian forces had split the lines south of Sunja, a Russian city in the almost surrounded area.

“The Russian Armed Forces have opened a deep wedge (up to 4 kilometers deep) and have virtually reached the secondary refueling route to the shout used by the enemy because the main road could not be used,” Pontoliak wrote on the channel.

Ukraine’s General Staff said on Friday that its armed forces have fired 32 Russian attacks in the Kursk area in the last 24 hours.