Russia’s devastating missile strike on a secret NATO command center in Ukraine leaves several hundred NATO officers killed or wounded
They must have killed all NATO soldiers by now... starting with hundreds if not thousands in secret underground tunnels two years ago in Mariupol. Time to invade Poland because there is no one left to defend it.
For what I heard. Ruzzia was very successful intercepting a quite massive Ukrainian drone attack in airports. The used planes and buildings and put them in the middle of the drones so that these would explode without hitting other things.
Zelensky has stated that the "negotiation fund" has grow a lot thanks to the Kursk "special operation". Translatation: We have made prisoners in the range of two thousands, many are not even soldiers, but conscripts that simply happened to have been sent (against the Ruzzian law appartently) to guard a front with no particular training or motivation. Also, the real state in Kursk may catch a good price in the future, who knows.
Jokes apart, Ukraine needed this action. You cannot fight a war with your hands tied and just hoping the enemy does not advance more. The strategy of blasting refineries and critical military equipment with long range drones was a step in the right direction - making the war costly, giving Ruzzia reasons to want to end it and to a point deterring a future invasion (to a point). Now, with more prisoners and a chunk of Ruzzia the situation improves whenever the negotiation happens, if it happens.
My guess is that Ukraine will be able to hold at least part of the current land, they have troops in there and it is better to have then in a front inside Ruzzia that in a front inside Ukraine. The letter to St Claus would be capturing the nuclear plant west of Kursk, but that may not happen. Meanwhile causing reputational damage, getting the war out of Ukraine into Ruzzia and creating a window of opportunity is a great achievement.