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My name is Ryan Evans.

I'm the founder of War in the Rocks, and in this episode I sat down with Michael Kaufman to get an update on the war in Ukraine

Mike, let's start with everyone's transfixed understandably by what's happening in Kursk, but let's start further south.

What's happening around Kirsan and parts sort of southeast of there?

The front line has been relatively stable down south, although there's been intermittent fighting over islands in the Nippur River,

there have been raids by Ukrainian forces on the Kenburne spit.

Russian military I think largely considers a breez Janker so in those areas to be

secondary areas at this point that are fairly stable.

And most recently they pulled some forces from there to reinforce Kursk,

810th Naval infantry brigade, some of the units from them, a couple other elements

from Zuppereesia, it's clear that they're pulling a bit from that area

while maintaining focus on their offensive operations on other parts of the front.

And further to the east, it looks like Ukraine has been losing a fair amount of ground.

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