Because war is not a sport where victor or losers are decided based upon final score i.e. how many goals or how many runs a team scored and in this case how many men they killed. Kursk is an obvious soviet victory (I don't think if its even debatable) as in all Germans failed in all of their objectives while Soviets succesfully defended the Salient and dispelled the attackers in later counter attacks, the fact that they suffered more casuality than Germans is irrelevant.1. Why is Kurst viewd as a russian "succes" hailing russian strategistits?
Russian High command new where Germany would attack for months, they could prepare their defense in perfection.
Nevertheless they managed to lose much more material and men than Germany. So where is the so called "perfect russian strategy"? Even in a defense position, even with much more soldiers and mateiral, even with more strategic reserve. The russian losses between july and septembe 43 were horrifying compared to german losses, althoug germany couldnt recovr their losses and russia could
Oh and agree with hindsight, nothing could had been done militarily to save German situation now.