by Andre Damon at WSWS.org
Six days ago, Ukraine launched a military offensive against the Kursk region of Russia. In that time, several thousand troops have advanced as much as a dozen miles beyond the Russian border. Russia has, up to this point, been unable to repel the offensive, and advancing columns of Russian reinforcements have been destroyed in long-range strikes. On Monday, Russia began evacuations from Belgorod, another nearby border region, as Ukrainian forces claimed to have crossed the border there.
The Kursk offensive is of limited military effectiveness, but its political significance is substantial. It is an immense political humiliation for the Putin regime and a demonstration that NATO has no “red lines” in its escalation against Russia.
The United States, Germany and the European Union have endorsed the Ukrainian offensive, all the while claiming not to have been involved in its planning and coordination.
Such claims of NATO non-involvement are absurd. The attack comes just one month after the NATO summit in Washington, which formally transferred oversight of the arming and training of the Ukrainian army directly to NATO. Ukraine’s Kursk offensive, using American and German tanks and long-range missiles, is in reality being coordinated from Washington, Berlin and London minute by minute.
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