Bloomberg: Ukraine Has Got ‘Bargaining Chip’

Russia is unable to regain control over the Kursk region.

While Russian troops continue to gradually advance in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv continues to hold the “bargaining chip” in the form of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation for a possible exchange of territories in potential negotiations.

This was reported on Thursday, February 6, by Bloomberg, emphasizing that after the start of the operation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Kursk region, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin tasked the Russian military command with driving out the Ukrainians.

“Six months later, they are still trying,” Bloomberg states.

Thus, Putin's inability to drive the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of Russian territory may take on additional significance, as US President Donald Trump insists on an agreement to end the Russian war against Ukraine.

“The first occupation of Russian soil by a foreign military since World War II is a personal setback for Putin, whose domestic image is based on being a strong ruler defending the nation’s interest,” the agency writes.

Since the Ukrainian Armed Forces crossed the Russian border and quickly advanced, Russian troops have recaptured only half the territory, even with the help of thousands of North Korean soldiers sent to the region.

The Ukrainian invasion of a region with a population of about 1 million people and roughly the size of Belgium came as a shock to Russians, bringing closer the consequences of the war that Putin unleashed.

Bloomberg also noted that Russians are growing dissatisfied with the government’s failure to protect them. In January, hundreds of people took to the streets to complain that the government was doing too little to accommodate displaced persons or search for missing relatives. At the same time, according to Nikolai Petrov, a research fellow at the London-based think tank Chatham House, the Kremlin views Kursk as a “regional, not a national problem,” and “this means there is no rush.”

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