No orders for AFU to hold Kursk region until Trump’s inauguration – CCD
Andrii Kovalenko, Head of the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) under Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have not received any orders to hold Russia’s Kursk region until Donald Trump’s inauguration in order to "exchange it later."
He made this statement on Telegram, as reported by Ukrinform.
“There were no orders for the military to hold Kursk region until Trump’s inauguration in order to ‘exchange it later.’ The information circulating in the media is not true,” Kovalenko said.
According to him, “in Kursk region, the Ukrainian Defense Forces are carrying out specific combat missions directly linked to the overall situation at the front.”
“These missions, among other things, affect the situation on several other directions, including the number of Russian forces deployed there,” he emphasized.
Kovalenko further noted that "there’s no point in explaining that such orders could not possibly exist within the military in principle."
Previously, several media outlets reported claims that the AFU had allegedly received orders to hold Russian territory in Kursk region until the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.