Zelensky Last Stand – How Strategist Putin Trapped 10,000 Ukrainian Troops In Kursk, And Slaughtering Them Now

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Zelensky Last Stand – How Strategist Putin Trapped 10,000 Ukrainian Troops In Kursk, And Slaughtering Them Now


March 11th, 2025 by financetwitter


Wars are not won on honour and courage alone. They are won on force, logistics, and strategy. In the case of Ukraine, it is running out of all three. And Zelensky will go down in history as the man who caused the humiliating defeat of his country after his ego got the best of him when he threw tantrums and started a shouting match with U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance.

It doesn’t matter whether Trump was bullying Zelensky or extorting for Ukrainian minerals. Beggars can’t be choosers, and the Ukrainian president had already committed the biggest mistake by biting the hand that feeds him. He isn’t Winston Churchill as the European leaders tried to portray him. It also doesn’t matter whether Russia has lost over 880,000 troops while Ukraine has lost just a few thousands.

Ukraine has lost more troops than Western propaganda machines claim. So, without soldiers, the last thing Zelensky should do is to burn his logistics, which includes supplies and ammunition to troops by picking a fight with Trump. The fact that he chose to provoke Trump, resulting in losing U.S. military aid as well as intelligence sharing, goes to show the comedian was not a strategist in the first place.


From the beginning, Zelensky went to war based on the assumption that the United States under the previous Sleepy Joe would lead the 27-bloc European Union and NATO in pouring limitless money, military hardware and moral support for Ukraine to fight Russia. He does not have any war strategy or tactic, let alone an “exit strategy” when things go south, which is happening now.

Thanks to his childish fight with the Commander-in-Chief, before he was kicked out of the White House and told not to come back until he is ready to surrender Ukrainian minerals, Russia President Vladimir Putin has begun unleashing devastating missile, drone attack and whatnot on Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure. Without the U.S. intelligence, Ukraine becomes a sitting duck.

But Putin is playing the long game against the West’s short-term politics. In fact, the Russian supremo was playing both chess and poker, while Biden, Zelensky and even Trump were playing checkers. Get real, Ukraine will lose lands and will not receive any compensation for its losses, which the U.S. and Europe knew from the beginning. Only “Winston Churchill 2.0” Zelensky didn’t realize it.


You just need to re-visit the Russian-Georgian war of 2008 to understand that the so-called Putin’s war crimes will go unpunished and Ukrainians will not be provided with the security guarantees needed to protect them from future Russian attack. After calling Zelensky a “dictator” and accusing him as ungrateful and “took candy from a baby”, Trump basically gave Putin the green light to assault Ukraine.

Similar to judo – a sport the Russian president has practised since his youth – Putin patiently stays close to his opponent and wear them down until they give up. He had outlived not only Biden, but also clueless Western leaders betting Ukraine would win the war such as Canadian Justin Trudeau, British Rishi Sunak, French Emmanuel Macron and German Olaf Scholz.

After the drama in the Oval Office, Trump wanted more than Putin for Ukraine to lose just to teach the arrogant Zelensky a lesson and to pressure him to end the war. Having four years before Mr Trump is out of office, Mr Putin isn’t in a rush to end the war, which Russia is winning anyway. Besides, about 20% of Ukrainian land has been occupied without any sign of under threat.


Putin reads Trump’s message very clearly. The POTUS has publicly mocked Zelensky that he has no cards to play, and the U.S. was not interested to start a World War 3 with Russia just because of Ukraine. Trump says he’s “sick” of how Zelensky has handled Ukraine’s war with Russia, praising Putin instead for wanting to end the war more than Zelensky. But there’s something else that made Trump very angry.

Zelensky is a serial liar, who tells one story in private and another in public. Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed in a CNN interview – “The first thing we need to be honest about is that Zelensky’s made statements in English that are very different from statements he’s made in Ukrainian … and we need to understand that when we’re negotiating and having discussions with him.”

Convinced with bad blood between Trump and Zelensky, Russia appears to have finally made a pincer movement in Kursk in a major operation to encircle Ukrainian soldiers, effectively trapping thousands of them. When the Russian region, covering an area of 1,150 square km, was occupied by Ukraine in a surprise offensive last August, it was quickly celebrated by the Western media as a great victory.


However, the largest cross-border attack on Russian territory since World War II was a clever trap set by President Putin.Anyanalysts can tell you that holding onto these gains deep inside Russian territory will be risky. Ukraine’s supply lines, already stretched thin, would be vulnerable to Russian counterattacks, and any setbacks could lead to significant losses.

Crucially, the Ukrainian incursion into Russia fits perfectly into Putin’s narrative of continued dangers from NATO’s expansion to the east, threatening Russian national security. It was already a red flag when Ukraine managed to easily push its forces deep into Kursk without serious Russian resistance when its forces are being overwhelmed in Ukraine’s Donbas region.

Last week, Vladimir Putin’s forces launched a counter-offensive in Sudzha, seven miles inside Russia, while simultaneously crossing the border into Ukraine’s Sumy region. On Monday, Russian forces have cleared the village of Ivashkovsky as they advanced in the region in seven separate pushes. The tactical pincer move has left pockets of Ukrainian troops cut off from friendly forces.


Over the past few days, Russian troops have cleared as much territory in the Kursk region which they previously could not even clear in a couple of months, largely thanks to Trump’s decision to pause the sharing of U.S. intelligence with Ukraine. Putin’s goal is not to push out the Ukrainian units – numbering as many as 10,000 troops – but to completely trap, defeat and destroy them.

Aided by about 12,000 North Korean troops and intense drone warfare, Putin’s army had been attacking Ukrainian forces in Kursk through slow, grinding advances without any urgency to commit huge resources. Again, Putin’s long game now sees roughly three-quarters of Ukraine’s forces in Russia almost entirely surrounded. Zelensky’s forces in Kursk are nearly cleaved into two.

“The situation (for Ukraine in Kursk) is very bad. Now there is not much left until Ukrainian forces will either be encircled or forced to withdraw. And withdrawal would mean running a dangerous gauntlet, where the forces would be constantly threatened by Russian drones and artillery” – Pasi Paroinen, a military analyst with the Finland-based Black Bird Group, told Reuters.


Worse, the remaining Ukrainian force located closer to the Russian border by a land corridor – around 1 km long and less than 500 metres wide at its narrowest point – is under threat as Russian forces move to cut that off too. It is worth noting that the Kremlin has an advantage in UAVs (drones), both reconnaissance and strike. The Russian drones will fire anything that “moves in or out” of Kursk region.

Zelensky hopes that Putin would be forced to engage in a major redeployment of forces to deal with the capture of Russian territory. Ukraine’s hold on Kursk was also seen as a bargaining chip for negotiations. Not only that chip appears to be vanishing, Putin could end up with some new chips of his own as Russia may soon have thousands more Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW) among its assets.

But even before the Trump-Zelensky clash, Russia’s forces had already regained control of 64% of Kursk territory initially seized by Ukraine, thanks to the coordinated work of North Korean troops and Russian drone units, not to mention the aid of intense Russian artillery and air bombardment. Using fibre-optic drones, Russia was able to destroy German Leopard and even U.S.-made Abrams tanks in the Kursk region.


The highway from Sumy to Sudzha, the last road for Ukrainians out of Kursk, is now littered with destroyed vehicles sent to re-supply and re-enforce Zelensky’s troops. It has become the “Road of Death” as the route is under complete fire control of the Russian Army. A Ukrainian commander said – “We can’t stop them. They just sweep us away, advancing in groups of 50 North Koreans while we have only six men in our positions.”