Anonymous Telegram channels are throwing around theories that Volodymyr Zelenskyi “started” the Kursk operation in order to once again attract the attention of the world community to Ukraine. They say that Volodymyr Zelenskyi is gradually losing the support of his strategic partners. At the same time, they allegedly referred to an article from the Financial Times, which talks about the “losing situation” around the Kursk region on the part of the Ukrainian army.

“The Kursk operation changes the “balance of attrition” not in Ukraine's favor, since it will already lose”, say the propagandists.

Ukrainian troops broke through the Russian border in the Sumy region on Tuesday, August 6. On August 12, President Zelenskyi wrote for the first time that Ukraine was conducting an operation in Russia's Kursk Oblast. On August 12, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi reported that Ukraine controls almost 1,000 km of the Kursk region. As of August 21, 93 settlements in Russia are under Ukraine's control.

The thesis about “returning attention” is another attempt by propagandists to justify the Ukrainian operation in the Kursk region of Russia. After all, in this way the fake news makers are looking for a justification for Ukraine's actions and at the same time maintaining the internal mood of the population.

Moreover, the Financial Times article does not say at all that the Ukrainian Armed Forces operation in the Kursk region had any “catastrophic” impact on Ukraine’s defense capability. The article emphasizes that due to the Kursk operation, Ukrainian servicemen in Donbas have to ration the amount of ammunition, and soldiers “may face an even longer stay at the front without rotation”. Moreover, this is the conclusion of the authors of the publication themselves, that is, an assumption.

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