Retired American general and former commander of US Army Europe, Ben Hodges, explained the objectives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ operation in the Kursk region, Russia’s reaction to it, and the situation in the Pokrovsk direction. I’ve been thinking about this UAF (Ukrainian Armed Forces) operation the last couple of weeks, and so I’ve tried to put it on “paper” to make sense of it. First of all, what do we call this Ukrainian operation in the Kursk direction? Incursion sounds totally inadequate. Invasion is misleading. I consider it a counter-offensive based on what effects I see it achiev…