Ukraine retreats from Kursk

but more importantly, the country's leaders believed the capture of Russian territory might help in any future peace negotiations with its enemy.

Trump cut off crucial intelligence that Ukraine needed to hold on to this territory.

Trump: "Russia holds all the cards" [as he deals to Russia from the bottom of the deck and throws Ukraine's cards into the fireplace]

Not really. They've been slowly been rolled back for months.
#5 | Posted by sitzkrieg

"Russia pushed Ukrainian forces out of most of the territory they controlled in the Russian region of Kursk during the past week, raising questions about whether a weeklong US intelligence cutoff materially helped the Russian counterattack."
www.aljazeera.com

You'll pardon me if I don't give Putin's Beach the benefit of the doubt when it comes to guessing whether he times his treachery to aid Russia.

It's not required. All you need is basic knowledge of how the front line is being fought.
#10 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Since I don't put much stock in coincidences when it comes to our Traitor in Chief and Russia, I'm going to go with: "Trump/Vance orchestrated a public blowup against Zelensky to justify cutting off intelligence/supplies to Ukraine for one week to deprive it during that same week of the one bargaining chip it had with Russia." Because that goes with everything I know and suspect of Orange Pussolini.

you're misrepresenting it because Trump, and not looking at basic on the ground reality.
#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Putin struck while the iron was hot (with Trump at the bellows). There will be more of that in the months to come. While the MAGATs deny that Putin's Beach is exactly that.

It was just the end of a long grind.
#14 | Posted by sitzkrieg

And Trump hurried that along in Putin's favor.

Ukrainian troops forced out of Kursk fear Vladimir Putin knew the US would cut military aid and intelligence sharing, a top commander has said.

Lieutenant Colonel Vano Nadiradze cannot shake off the feeling' as Moscow appeared primed and captured key villages in the territory within hours of the decision.

Explaining the damage done by Washington's decision, Nadiradze, who commands a reconnaissance special ops group, said it had hurt my unit the most'. We didn't have the data about their movements, no satellite images,' he said. We controlled Kursk for seven months and could have held for some more, if not for the cutoff of the intelligence sharing in real time from the U.S.'
www.dailymail.co.uk

But yeah, that was all probably just a big coinky-dink. Like the type that seems to happen so often when Trump and Russia are involved.

Kyiv losing Russia's Kursk after being blinded by lack of US intelligence, say Ukrainians
www.msn.com

After all, how could the Ukrainians possibly know that an intelligence blackout impacted their defenses.

""We're not delighted but we are realistic. A ceasefire agreement from us at least means that we are back talking to the Americans and they have given us access to the intelligence we need. Kursk shows what happens when we don't have it," said a senior [Ukrainian] ministerial adviser."
www.msn.com