Ukraine's invasion of Russia is a bold signal to the West: Ukraine can change course of war

The Ukrainian military operation in the Kursk region of Russia demonstrated that the Russian army has many vulnerabilities. It also sent a political message to Kiev's allies that Ukraine is not doomed and can change the course of the war, CNN writes.

"The Ukrainian Armed Forces have shattered a growing consensus among Ukraine's supporters that it has little chance of recapturing much of its territory. In Kyiv's view, the Kursk operation shows that the Ukrainian army deserves continued, faster and better support from its allies because it could change the course of the war," the publication says.

As retired Australian Army Major General Mick Ryan noted, the goal of the Ukrainian invasion is to show that "a Russian victory is not inevitable and that Ukraine can fight and win." At the same time, he called on Ukraine's Western allies not only to maintain support, but also to further relax restrictions on the use of the transferred weapons.

"Ukraine has demonstrated once again that the various 'red lines' projected by Putin are nothing more than a chimera designed to reinforce Western political timidity about making decisions about war," Ryan added.

Matthieu Boulegue, a senior fellow at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, believes the Kursk operation is a valuable way to "test Putin's pain threshold and other forms of deterrence."

However, as CNN writes, Ukraine would like to target airfields deep inside Russia with the same longer-range ATACMS missiles, but Washington seems reluctant to agree.

However, the seizure of Russian territory improves Ukraine's position in any negotiations and also serves as insurance in case former President Donald Trump wins the US election and tries to impose a peace settlement on Ukraine, the publication says.

Recall that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the Kursk operation was the largest "investment" in the process of liberating Ukrainians from Russian captivity, as well as crossing the reddest of all the "red lines" that exist in Russia:

"We now have an extremely important ideological change, namely: the entire naive, illusory concept of the so-called "red lines" in relation to Russia, which reigned in the assessments of the war by some partners, fell apart the other day somewhere near Sudzha."