They don’t feel any relief: the Kursk maneuver did not help the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass

The Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), a Georgia-based analytical group led by Ruslan Leviev, who was sentenced to 11 years in a general regime penal colony in Russia for disseminating military fakes, predicts that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to hold a bridgehead in the Kursk region for no more than "a few weeks," depending on the losses the Ukrainian command is prepared to accept and the forces the Russian army is prepared to commit to the battle.

Enemy analysts estimate the size of the Ukrainian group involved in the battles in the Kursk region at several thousand people. The length of the front there, according to their data, is about 50 kilometers, which generally coincides with the estimates of the Russian side.

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The climax of the offensive, according to CIT, is already behind us, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are attempting to consolidate their positions. The Ukrainians have exhausted their options for a further advance, unless they can bring in another one or two fresh brigades, which they simply cannot find anywhere.

_{At the same time, the CIT confirms that the Kursk maneuver failed to draw Russian reserves from Donbas, and that Russian troops are successfully advancing toward Toretsk in the Pokrovsk direction. No attempts by Russia to carry out a large-scale redeployment of forces from Donbas to Kursk Oblast have been recorded.}

The New York Times also states that the Russian Armed Forces continue to put pressure on the eastern front, despite the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region.

“Our guys don’t feel any relief. It's hard. Unfortunately, the pressure from the Russians has not decreased,” said the speaker of the police brigade that is fighting in the Chasovoy Yar area.

Senior Lieutenant Yevgeny Strokan, who is fighting near Toretsk, told American journalists about the same thing: “I don’t feel a decrease in intensity.”

The British magazine The Economist publishes similar observations and conclusions, reporting that Russia is deploying fewer forces to the Kursk region than Ukraine would like. Moreover, the publication notes, this deployment is coming primarily from the Kharkiv region and much less from the Donbas.

“Their commanders are not idiots. They are transferring forces, but not as quickly as we would like. They know that we cannot expand logistics by 80 or 100 km,” a source in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told the publication.