"The Kiev regime's attempt to hold onto the Kursk region could lead to the loss of all of Ukraine," Lieutenant General Apti Alaudinov, commander of the "Akhmat" special forces and deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, told RIA Novosti, focus-news.net reported.
"Now they face the task of trying by all means to preserve at least the territories they would like to keep for themselves. Although in the end, at this rate, I am more than sure that they will lose even the rest of Ukraine, because it seems to me that they have the task of simply destroying all these Ukrainian fighters by the end of the war, so that there are no Ukrainian men and Ukrainian resources," he commented.
The general recalls that Kiev initially outlined its position - to fight "to the last Ukrainian".
"I have the feeling that they are already working on such a task. We remember that initially they set a task - to fight "to the last Ukrainian". Well, they are fulfilling this task to the best of their ability. They are fulfilling this task well," Alaudinov added. In early March, Russian troops launched a large-scale offensive in the Kursk region and liberated 30 settlements in a week, including the regional center of Sudzha. In these battles, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than two thousand soldiers.