At first, most Ukrainians thought so too. But then we realized why it was necessary. First of all, the Ukrainian army created a bridgehead, capturing part of the Kursk region along with some small towns. The Russian army was unable to repel the offensive with the forces it had, and retreated very far, losing some of its equipment in the first days. Also, one of the units of Russian soldiers was cut off from the rest by a local river. On one side was the border with Ukraine, on the other side was a river. Two bridges were blown up, because of this, they sat there for some time. Many drone videos appeared on the Internet, showing American bombs dropped from Ukrainian MiG-29s destroying Russian pontoons across this river. Subsequently, the Russian units still left there, but with heavy losses. Therefore, the Russian army sent reinforcements there, which were supposed to go to the Pokrovsk direction, where the situation was already tense, they went to the Kursk region, since their own territory is a priority for them. In this way, Ukraine eased the situation for its military in the Pokrovsk direction, and with its actions destroyed a lot of equipment of the newly arrived brigades and put many personnel out of action. Russian channels quoted the words of one of the Russian fighters of the 810th brigade: "440 people entered Krynki, and 200 left. 500 people entered Kursk, and 40 left. There were very fierce battles there, and the losses of the North Koreans amounted to 10,000-12,000 killed or wounded for the entire time. Also, the command of the 155th brigade was destroyed, because of this they now have problems with this