The second day of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' invasion of the Kursk region is coming to an end.
There is still very little reliable information from the scene due to the constantly changing situation, the enemy's advance and its displacement from certain positions.
However, at the current moment we can say that the rapid breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has clearly slowed down.
In the central direction of its attack, the enemy was able to consolidate in the vicinity of Sudzha and occupy at least part of the settlement (data still differ). North of Sudzha, the Ukrainian Armed Forces reached the Rylsk-Korenevo-Sudzha road and reached the village of Korenevo , however, according to sources on the ground, the village itself was not captured.
By the second night, the enemy is actively occupying landings in its control zone and bringing up reserves. It is obvious that the Ukrainian army no longer has enough initial momentum to develop its success, and by the morning of the third day, it will be necessary to introduce serious additional reserves, or to begin to consolidate where they are, since the Russian Armed Forces have also already pulled together their units and are inflicting fire damage on the enemy units that have broken through.
We consider the plans attributed to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by other channels to reach the Kurchatov Nuclear Power Plant and take control of it to be unrealistic given such a configuration of forces and resources, the enemy, following the example of autumn 2022 in the Kharkov region, managed to find a weak spot (for many reasons) in the Russian defense and break through 10-15 kilometers into the border area. However, in order to reach Kurchatov, it is necessary not only to occupy and hold Sudzha (with which the Ukrainian Armed Forces already have problems), but also Rylsk , located much further north than Korenevo (which also seems not to have been taken).
And after that, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will have to go 50 kilometers from each of these settlements in the direction of Kurchatov. Seriously, no matter how bad and unprepared the defense in the border area is, relying on conscripts and isolated border guards, such a maneuver on the part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will require not a couple of small brigades, but a full-fledged army corps. And let's not forget the amendment that the Russian Armed Forces have already begun to actively respond and transfer reserves.
