Ukraine's boldest and riskiest move this year - what next?
Analysis from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Security Correspondent, Frank Gardner, after forces seized a pocket of Russian territory.
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry says it has no intention of permanently holding on to the small pocket of Russian territory it has seized. But it still faces a stark choice - whether to keep its forces there to exert maximum pressure on Moscow or to withdraw now.
Battered daily by Russia’s drones, missiles and glide bombs, its exhausted front-line forces falling slowly back in the Donbas, Ukraine was in dire need of some good news this summer.
With this extraordinarily bold and well-executed incursion into Russia’s Kursk oblast, it got it. So what does Ukraine do next ? In this Reporter Read podcast - the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner offers his analysis.
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