Experts tell Andy Gregory and Tom Watling that the real question is how much Kyiv’s troops are able to inflict casualties on the Russians as the price for taking the territory back

The reconsolidated 47th Mechanized Brigade, its people and vehicles no longer scattered across a wide front in western Russia, is directly in the Russians’ crosshairs in Kursk. On Tuesday, 30 Russian vehicles barreled toward the 47th Mechanized Brigade in five waves.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia has deployed nearly 50,000 troops to Kursk, the southern Russian region where Kyiv launched its surprise counteroffensive in the summer.