London Telegraph reporting in these last hours.

Russia launches major counterattack in Kursk subhead.

Ukrainian troops start to lose some of the ground they seized an incursion that began last month.

This is the Kursk salient to the large

and important city of Kursk in Russia. This information comes chiefly from a

named Major General for the Russian Special Forces.

He's a Chechen.

His name is Aloudinoff.

We do not have a comment from Keith.

I welcome Colonel Jeff McCausen, the United States Army retired, CBS News, Dickinson

College Visiting Professor, and CEO Diamond Six Leadership and Strategy. Jeff, I only give you the task side of this story so not only

fog of war but fog of propaganda misinformation but that would be the nature of

war fighting you never say what you want

the enemy to do. You say what the you want the enemy to believe you're going to do.

So right now, cursed salient, what does that represent to Keith? Why do they fight to hold

on to it? What is it contributing to the war effort in Ukraine? Good evening to you.

Good to you, John. Well it contributes to a number of things, politically, psychologically, and militarily.

Politically, of course, this is a major black eye for Mr. Putin, that a portion of actual

Russian territory.

And this was not territory Russia had seized.

This was Russian territory from the onset.

In fact, for a historical Russian territory

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