From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / March 10, 2025
Intelligence, Artillery, and Hard Choices: How the U.S. Aid Suspension Transforms Battlefield Reality
Summary of the Day – March 9, 2025
As Russian forces intensify their push through northern Kursk Oblast and cross the international border into Ukraine’s Sumy region, the suspension of U.S. intelligence sharing with Ukraine marks a pivotal moment in the war’s trajectory. Russian advances, bolstered by North Korean troops and intensified drone warfare, have dramatically altered the strategic calculus in a conflict now shaped as much by diplomatic maneuvers in Washington and Jeddah as by the artillery exchanges on the frontlines.
On March 8, 2025, Russian forces achieved their most significant territorial gains in months, collapsing Ukrainian positions in northern Kursk Oblast while breaching Ukraine’s Sumy region for the first time since the war’s early phase in 2022. Meanwhile, European allies scramble to fill America’s support void as U.S.-Ukrainian peace talks loom against a backdrop of increasing Russian military pressure.
The Kursk Collapse: Russia’s Northern Offensive Accelerates
The northern section of Ukraine’s Kursk salient is rapidly crumbling under intensified Russian pressure. Geolocated footage confirms Russian forces have seized Novaya Sorochina northwest of Sudzha, Malaya Loknya just south of it, and Lebedevka, along with the fields separating these settlements.
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