There's always more to one side of a story

As previously reported by several international media outlets, the American CIA estimates that Russia will launch a counter-offensive to attempt to retake territory in the Kursk region that is currently under Ukrainian control, noting that this would be a difficult task for the Russians.

Russia is forming territorial defense units to support the capture of the Kursk region..

Russian authorities are creating new voluntary territorial defense units in response to the ongoing Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region, suggesting Vladimir Putin's reluctance to counter the offensive more broadly, including through a general mobilization, fearing public discontent or a large-scale redeployment of troops due to potential disruptions to Russia's offensive efforts in Eastern Ukraine. ?

This is according to the think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW), based in Washington, DC

GEO-LOCATION FOOTAGE INDICATES THAT RUSSIA ADVANCED IN THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST

Our Board Members
General Jack Keane (US Army, Retired), Chairman, Institute for the Study of War; President, GSI, LLC
Dr. Kimberly Kagan, Founder & President, Institute for the Study of War
The Honorable Kelly Craft, Former US Ambassador to UN and Canada
Dr. William Kristol, Director, Defending Democracy Together
Kevin Mandia, Chief Executive Officer & Board Director, Mandiant
Jack D. McCarthy, Jr., Senior Managing Director & Founder, A&M Capital
Bruce Mosler, Chairman, Global Brokerage, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Retired), Partner, KKR and Chairman, KKR Global Institute
Dr. Warren Phillips, Lead Director, CACI International
Colonel William Roberti (US Army, Retired), Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal
Hudson La Force, former Chief Executive Officer of W. R. Grace & Co
Dr. Jennifer London, Consultant, CACI

Dr. Kimberly Kagan founded ISW in May 2007, as U.S. forces undertook a daring new counterinsurgency strategy to reverse the grim security situation on the ground in Iraq 

Frustrated with the prevailing lack of accurate information documenting developments on the ground in Iraq and the detrimental effect of biased reporting on policymakers, Dr. Kagan established ISW to provide real-time, independent, and open-source analysis of ongoing military operations and insurgent attacks in Iraq. 

General Jack Keane (U.S. Army, Ret.), the Chairman of ISW’s board, also played a central role in developing the intellectual foundation for this change of strategy in Iraq, and supported the formation of the Institute in 2007.
Learn More...

Servicemen of the 810th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation with a trophy Roshnel Senator, Kursk oblast (Picture source: Russian Fighters)

Read full news