Lawfare Daily: Ukraine Invades Russia
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Over the past week, Ukrainian forces have launched a major incursion into Russia proper, occupying 1,000 square kilometers in Kursk Oblast, which borders Ukraine. The operation, which caught both Russia and the United States by surprise, is the first major Ukrainian offensive in more than a year. In this episode, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Lawfare's Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina and Eric Ciaramella of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to discuss the operation. What do we know amidst the Ukrainian media blackout? What is Ukraine trying to achieve militarily? How will the Kursk operation affect the other fronts in the ongoing war, in which Russia has been on the offensive? And what are the political implications of Ukraine occupying Russian territory?
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| 1:40.8 | Definitely the Ukrainians achieved operational surprise on the attack. |
| 1:46.2 | I mean, it's actually amazing reading some of the accounts how much Ukraine managed to |
| 1:52.4 | almost mimic the surprise that Russia thought it was achieving in the early days of the full scale invasion. |
| 2:00.0 | Ukraine has invaded Russia in In a bit of role reversal, we're talking about the major Ukrainian |
| 2:09.5 | operation inside of Russian territory, a thousand square kilometers of which are currently under Ukrainian |
| 2:18.8 | control. |
| 2:19.8 | Nastia, I want to start for the American listeners who think that Kursk is either a |
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