On Aug. 6, Ukraine launched a bold offensive into Russia’s Kursk region, marking the first time that foreign troops have occupied Russian territory since World War II. The incursion, which caught both Moscow and Washington off guard, has already changed the battlefield: Ukrainian forces now claim hundreds of square miles of Russian territory.
“But wars are political as well as military, and it’s in the political arena where Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk has fundamentally changed the course of the conflict,” writes Carl Bildt, co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations and former prime minister of Sweden.
This edition of Flash Points provides an insider’s look into the Kursk offensive and considers what it could mean for the direction of the war, the region, and the terms of a future peace.—Chloe Hadavas
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