{"id":1087,"date":"2024-08-10T22:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T16:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/putin-under-pressure-as-ukraine-incursion-continues-may-give-kyiv-bargaining-chips-in-peace-talks-experts\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T00:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T18:35:46","slug":"putin-under-pressure-as-ukraine-incursion-continues-may-give-kyiv-bargaining-chips-in-peace-talks-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainews.prativad.com\/index.php\/putin-under-pressure-as-ukraine-incursion-continues-may-give-kyiv-bargaining-chips-in-peace-talks-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin under pressure as Ukraine incursion continues, may give Kyiv bargaining chips in peace talks: experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moscow has deployed troops to the Kursk region after a Ukrainian incursion into Russian territory that has raised major questions for the Kremlin and handed Kyiv a major opportunity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Given the significant disparity of combat potential favoring Russia on the battlefield, Ukrainian forces appear to be switching to, or at minimum, intensifying, unconventional warfare, bringing war deeper into Russia,&#8221;\u00a0Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst and author of &#8220;Putin\u2019s Playbook,&#8221; told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;With the latest surprise incursion into Kursk oblast, Zelensky likely aims to demonstrate to Putin that as long as there\u2019s no peace in Ukraine, the Russian people will not sleep peacefully either,&#8221; Koffler said. &#8220;Kyiv is probably also seeking to beef up its negotiating position in a potential peace settlement with Moscow.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia pulled from a group of unspecified operational reserves, including units from conscripts, former Wagner members and a number of special forces, including the Chechen special forces unit Akhmat, according to online newspaper\u00a0Ukrayinska Pravda.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine launched incursions into Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk on Tuesday and shows no signs of slowing down after four days. The events have put the Russian military command under fire over the intelligence and tactical lapses that allowed such an attack to happen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian troops have seized an estimated 100 square miles of territory,\u00a0The Washington Post reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Russian military blogger speculated that Russia may have drawn on forces that had gathered for an offensive in the northern Kharkiv Oblast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A retired U.S. Army sergeant major told Fox News Digital that Russia and Ukraine had\u00a0returned to a stalemate\u00a0\u2013 which has plagued the two sides each year since the invasion started in 2022 \u2013 but that Russia has focused so much of its forces on the front that any strike that hits along the border will thoroughly test the Russian forces.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sergeant major suggested that Ukraine took a calculated risk attacking near Kursk to see if Russia could absorb the stress, citing the &#8220;Wagner debacle&#8221; last year when then-Wagner forces chief Yevgeny Prigozhin took a small force and marched within 125 miles of Moscow with seemingly little resistance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Look\u00a0how far Wagner group got,&#8221; the expert said. &#8220;I believe they could have made it to Moscow but for Putin cutting some kind of deal that got them to stop. . . . I\u2019m betting that event got the wheels turning for this plan in Kursk.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moving the war closer to the Russian population might unsettle them as they feel the war hit home and hopefully create major domestic disruption for the Russian government, creating two fronts for the Kremlin and dividing the government\u2019s focus, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There\u2019s a massive Ukrainian online operation \u2013 maybe on the ground \u2013 trying to get war protests fired up,&#8221; the expert said. &#8220;This all puts pressure on Putin.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some Russian military bloggers have raised concerns that this incursion could create a major distraction and draw significant resources to reclaim. 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