By Georgi Gotev

(EurActiv) — When Ukraine launched its incursion into Russian territory in the Kursk Oblast on 6 August, many Western analysts said this was some sort of fireworks – it makes a hell of an impression, but it doesn’t last long. One expert we quoted called it “a footnote”.

They were wrong. Taking a second look, the Ukraine incursion looks more likely to be a game-changer. In the first days of September, Ukraine still controls reportedly more than one thousand square kilometres of Russian territory, more than 100 settlements, and has captured hundreds of Russian soldiers.

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, analysts have been calling Ukraine’s military a “MacGyver army”.

In the 1985 TV series, MacGyver, a secret agent for a national security agency, solves complicated missions with his broad knowledge of applied sciences and his favourite Swiss Army knife.

Ukrainians surprised the whole world by combining Soviet-era weaponry with modern technology, developing sea and air drones in innovative ways, and, more broadly, adapting on the ground, faced with a more powerful adversary, at........

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