It is time for the latest update and analysis of the #RussiaUkraineWar. First is a multi-part update on the #Kursk front on November 9.
PART 1.
As I wrote in the previous report, the #Russians regrouped, replenished their units on the front lines (the 155th and 810th Marine and Paratrooper Brigades and combined motorized rifle units) and began the third stage of their offensive on November 5-6.

The primary attacks are aimed at Daryino and Nikolo-Daryino in the west, Pogrebki in the north, and Plekhovo in the east. The Russians are also attacking the Kremyanoye area to break through further south (red arrows on the map).

In the Glushkovsky district, the #UkrainianArmy retreated to the territory of #Ukraine, and the #Russian Armed Forces reached the border there but did not take up defensive positions along it; they remained in the 5-7 kilometer zone to the north.

The areas northwest of Pogrebki are still in the grey zone.

The Russians are attacking in the listed directions with tank support, trying to get as close as possible to the #Ukrainian positions in armored vehicles. According to several #Russian staff officers, there is progress around Pogrebki. According to field officers from the scene, the assaults were unsuccessful; the #Ukrainian Armed Forces, if they retreated in certain areas, then by 300-500 meters and no more.

None of our informers in the #Kursk region have seen DPRK Korean soldiers. Neither Russians nor Ukrainians. However, perhaps individual North Korean units or semi-units of special forces are assigned to #Russian paratroopers. But there is no talk yet of any full-fledged use of DPRK troops.
Take Sudzha before Trump's inauguration

This is how Western media and some opposition Russian media have been formulating the tasks of Russian troops in the Kursk region for the last two days. Allegedly, there is a plan according to which the Russian Armed Forces should reach the border with Ukraine in two months. Then Putin himself will propose peace talks by creating a demilitarized zone, in which, according to the American media, British troops will be stationed.

Let us explain on our fingers why this is nothing more than rumors for now. According to the Russian military, they have not been given specific deadlines for liberating the Kursk region. Perhaps they have not been given any, but the third stage of the Russian offensive has already begun, and no one in the command has announced the task of reaching Sudzha by December 1, 5, or 31. The military has been tasked with taking Pogrebki (no deadline) and pushing the Ukrainian Armed Forces back to Malaya Lokhna (no deadline), tying down Ukrainian units on the eastern flank with attacks on Plekhovo (while the Ukrainian Armed Forces are fighting back there with the forces that were assigned for this), capturing Darino and taking the fortifications lost in August to move along them and recapture them ultimately, cutting off the Ukrainian Armed Forces units to the north from retreat (no deadline and no results so far, if you don’t count the losses of equipment and personnel as results). The military is not very optimistic in its forecasts for deadlines and is cautiously talking about mid-to-late spring 2025. Doesn't it sound like a mission to reach the border at any cost before Trump's inauguration?

Let's assume the military is unaware of Putin's big political plans. This is usually the case; no one brings the secret plans of the top brass to the generals, much less the colonels and majors. They fight as best they can, but the plan is there nonetheless. Here, the main and insurmountable contradiction arises, which does not allow us to connect the "Trump plan" (the summer proposals for conflict resolution voiced by his advisers and experts close to him) with Putin's desires and plans.
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