Ukraine ambushes Russian convoy in Kursk as Kremlin declares emergency

 

Ukrainian forces staged an overnight ambush on a Russian convoy 25 miles inside the international border in Russia’s Kursk province, as the Kremlin declared a federal emergency and said it was transferring extra forces to try to snuff out a four-day incursion that has badly damaged its credibility.

A video circulated by Russian military bloggers showed a destroyed convoy, with bodies just visible inside some trucks, on the E38 east-west highway at Oktyabrskoe, a location far deeper inside Russia than any previously confirmed fighting since Ukraine’s forces crossed the border on Tuesday.

Commentators said the attack, reminiscent of Ukrainian attacks on Russian troops besieging Kyiv in the first weeks of the war, demonstrated an effective hit-and-run strategy, but the incursion appeared likely to draw an escalating response from the Kremlin, and its overall outcome remains profoundly uncertain.

 

Look, we can't have this. The U.S. can't have this, Ukraine can't have this, the world can't have this. We can't have this in the Middle East either. And in both conflicts, America has got skin in the game. Ukraine-Rus has been going on for two and one-half years. Fair to say that it would have ended before now without American and NATO arms. Fair to say that if the U.S. hadn't propped up Israel for the last 75 years! that Israel would not be standing today to have attacked Iran. We have now got task forces out the ass in the Persian Gulf. American personnel and materiel are in the firing zone. Both conflicts could result in crossing the nuclear threshold. We can't have this, none of us can, but because we have skin in the game we have it. Because Ukraine and Israel are sovereign nations, they have the right to make their own decisions over their survival, and we can't tell them do this, don't do that. But we've got our own skins in danger in their conflicts and we can't have that.