“Next week, there will probably be an intensification of hostilities in the Kursk and Kupyansk areas. In the Kurakhovo area, the already existing very high tempo of combat will continue,” he said.
The Estonian intelligence officer added that the contingent of Russian troops in the Kursk region is constantly growing. According to the Ukrainian military, there are about 50 thousand military personnel in the region, of which about 10 thousand are North Korean soldiers.
“We can say that such a large number of troops and possible concentration in the border areas express the desire of the Russian Federation to drive out Ukrainian forces from the Kursk region in the coming weeks or months of cold weather or by January 2025 at the latest,” Kiviselg said.
There are likely to be more drone attacks in November, according to the head of the intelligence center.
“In all probability, the Russian Federation will increase its attacks on the critical infrastructure in Ukraine with UAVs, mainly before the arrival of winter. We also saw this in a statistical sense, that if in September there were about 1,200 UAVs, then in October . there were already 2,000, in November it is possible to expect that this number will increase even more”, noted Kiviselg.
