Troops outnumbered by as much as six to one on the battlefield, the main supply route cut off and swarms of drones attacking vehicles and soldiers retreating across the border back into Ukraine. That is the picture painted by a senior Ukrainian army officer as Kyiv’s forces are pushed back from their foothold in Russia’s Kursk by Vladimir Putin’s troops.
Russian forces, with the help of thousands of North Korean troops, have been upping the pressure on Ukraine’s ranks for the last two weeks – as Kyiv looks to hang onto the land it audaciously seized last summer.
