RealLifeLore — Modern Conflicts — Modern Conflicts: The 21st-Century Kursk Offensive

RealLifeLore — Modern Conflicts — Modern Conflicts: The 21st-Century Kursk Offensive

Discuss this episode on Reddit. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war since has overwhelmingly been on their terms. But in August of 2024, something shifted. Ukraine began an incursion into Russia’s Kursk province, opposite their own Sumy province, engaging Russians on their own territory for the first time—and the first time in over 80 years that Russia had been occupied by a foreign power. Their goal was not to take over Russian territor…