By Ben Aris in Berlin Ukraine’s audacious incursion into Kursk has caught the headlines, but an equally fraught battle is being fought in Ukraine for the town of Pokrovsk that could change the course of the war if it falls to Russia. In a blitzkrieg and clearly meticulously planned operation, Ukraine’s forces rapidly overwhelmed the border on August 6 and took the important town of Sudzha in Kursk Oblast, home the metering station that controls the gas pipeline still carrying Russian gas to Western Europe, send gas prices on Europe’s gas market spiking. The AFU have been praised for mastering …