Kursk is a roach motel for the AFU. As long as they have presence there, that forces them to divert valuable resources from the collapsing front in the south. There is no chance of AFU being able to hold the towns they have in Kursk in the long term, and there is no strategic value to the territory they managed to capture. All that’s accomplishing is splitting up their very limited resources. Why would Russia want to prevent Ukraine from doing that.
Kursk is a roach motel for the AFU. As long as they have presence there, that forces them to divert valuable resources from the collapsing front in the south. There is no chance of AFU being able to hold the towns they have in Kursk in the long term, and there is no strategic value to the territory they managed to capture. All that’s accomplishing is splitting up their very limited resources. Why would Russia want to prevent Ukraine from doing that.