Ukraine to operate in Kursk within firepower range for strategic concerns: expert

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Ukraine to operate in Kursk within firepower range for strategic concerns: expert

2024-08-14 17:48 Last Updated At：23:27

Ukraine's military operations in Russia's Kursk region will be carried out within firepower and supply range for strategic concerns, a Chinese military expert said on Tuesday.

Ukrainian forces crossed the Russian border last Tuesday and broke into parts of Russia's Kursk region neighboring Ukraine. Currently, the Ukrainian military holds 28 settlements in the area, according to Alexei Smirnov, the region's acting governor.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday confirmed that Ukraine is carrying out an "operation" in the region.

Ukraine's attacks on Russia's border will receive a "worthy response," with the Russian military's primary task being to remove the Ukrainian forces from Russian territories, President Vladimir Putin said Monday.

In an interview with China Media Group in Beijing, military expert and commentator Du Wenlong weighed in the further development of the warfares in the Kursk region.

"At present, the Ukrainian army is not pursuing how fast it can fight or how far it may infiltrate. If the attack is carried out further [into Russian territory], various support elements may be prone to great changes. Roughly speaking, the basic intention of the Ukrainian army is to act within the range of firepower. So at present, if the front line can be stabilized and a stalemate is formed, it will stick to Kursk like a piece of glue, which might play a role in the following combat operations," Du said.

Du further analyzed the intentions of the Ukrainian operations.

"If the Ukrainian side deploys five or six brigades in a concentrated way or use West-supplied main battle weapons and equipment to launch powerful combat operations in the direction of Kursk, I'd say it has three intentions. The first is to reduce the frontal pressure. The second is to seek more weapons and equipment and funds from the West. And the third is to boost morale," he said.

China's software business revenue up 9.9 pct in first two months

2025-04-03 13:05 Last Updated At：13:37

In the first two months of 2025, China's software and information technology services industry maintained the momentum of sound development, with business revenue growing steadily, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed on Wednesday.

In the January-February period, the software business revenue reached 1.8965 trillion yuan (about 259.25 billion U.S. dollars), an increase of 9.9 percent year on year. The total profit of the software industry was 232.8 billion yuan (about 31.82 billion U.S. dollars), up 10.7 percent year on year.

Specifically, in the first two months of this year, the country's software product revenue reached 425.3 billion yuan (about 58.14 billion U.S. dollars), an 8.3 percent increase compared to the same period last year.

Information technology service revenue continued to achieve double-digit growth, totaling 1.2585 trillion yuan (about 172.04 billion U.S. dollars), up 10.3 percent year on year. Notably, cloud computing and big data services generated a combined revenue of 237.6 billion yuan (about 32.48 billion U.S. dollars), up 8.8 percent year on year.