“The Ukrainian attack in the Kursk region destabilizes the Russian strategic system,” says General Jérôme Pellistrandi

The Ukrainian army launched an incursion into the Kursk region, bordering Russia, which caused “a certain form of panic in Moscow, with the declaration of a state of emergency,” analyses General Jérôme Pellistrandi.

“The Ukrainian attack in the Kursk region completely destabilizes the Russian strategic system”believes General Jérôme Pellistrandi, editor-in-chief of the National Defense Reviewon franceinfo, Thursday August 8, two days after the start of a Ukrainian incursion into this region bordering Russia. Kursk is a “extremely important logistics base, it is a railway junction”underlines the specialist.

As “The region was not protected as we can see in Donbass”that “allows, with armoured vehicles, to cause enough damage to force the Russians to review their system, to recall, for example, troops who are on the front line to plug the breaches”believes Jérôme Pellistrandi.

For him, “This attack is not a territorial conquest”: “kyiv’s objective is not to go as far as Moscow, but it allows the Russian command to be destabilized, hence a certain form of panic in Moscow with the declaration of a state of emergency” in the Kursk region.

The Russian General Staff claims that 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers have infiltrated the Kursk region. This represents “0.5%” of the Ukrainian contingent, i.e. “two large battalions which must be very mobile, which must be well armed, with plenty of ammunition” for this “punch operation”the general said. This Ukrainian strategy is “audacious”, Good “for the morale of Ukrainians” And “bearing fruit”according to him.

On the Russian side, the objective is “to reverse the guilt” by communicating widely on this Ukrainian incursion. “For Moscow, it is about using propaganda to its maximum extent and, in a way, wanting to appear as the victim.”explains General Jérôme Pellistrandi. “Something Vladimir Putin has known how to do for a very long time”he emphasizes.

This Ukrainian attack on Russian soil could have consequences on the front in Ukraine, according to Jérôme Pellistrandi. “There is a risk of new waves of bombings on cities, like kyiv and Odessa have been experiencing regularly for two and a half years,” he specifies.