Britain Claims To Have Helped With The Ukrainian Invasion Of Russia

• Britain Claims To Have Helped With The Ukrainian Invasion Of Russia
  by Moon of Alabama, via https://www.theburningplatform.com/
  Yves Smith is discussing the Washington Post report on Russia-Ukraine negotiation to end the infrastructure attacks:
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  An Admission of Russian Long-Term Weakness or More Complex Calculation?
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  I had previously discussed the WaPo piece here.
  Yves suggests that the negotiations, if they really have happened as described, were an Ukrainian ruse to distract Russia from the Ukrainian preparation of the Kursk oblast incursion. The talks were useless for Russia, she says. She doubts that Russia would favor to stop the attacks on the Ukrainian electricity generating and network capabilities. She suggests that the Ukrainian attacks on Russia create little damage. It disagree with that view.
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  The winter will already become very difficult for Ukrainian civilians. There is no need to increase the damage on Ukrainian infrastructure beyond the already achieved level.
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  The Ukrainian attacks have so far created repairable damage in Russia. But that may not be the case forever. One day one of such attacks could in fact create some real catastrophe. The attacks are also binding lots of Russian resources. One needs a huge number of soldiers and equipment to give at least some protection to the most exposed sites. The Russian economy is currently short on men. Not diverting some 100,000 men for local air defense purposes can make a difference.
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  I believe that Russia was genuinely interested in making such deal. But the Ukrainian attack on Kursk oblast blew it apart. There are new suggestion on how the Ukrainian incursion into Russia was prepared for. The Times in London claims that it largely followed a British plan (archived):
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  When footage of British Challenger 2 battle tanks being used by the Ukrainian army for its counterinvasion of Russia emerged on Tuesday, Downing Street and the Ministry of Defence were ready.For the previous 48 hours, officials and political aides working for Sir Keir Starmer and John Healey, the defence secretary, had been in talks about how far to go to confirm growing British involvement in the incursion towards Kursk.
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  The stakes were high. Unseen by the world, British equipment, including drones, have played a central role in Ukraine’s new offensive and British personnel have been closely advising the Ukrainian military for two years, on a scale matched by no other country.
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  read more.

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