The Ukrainian offensive in Russia’s Kursk region has prompted Moscow to move around 40,000 troops to the region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said today.
Regarding the situation in the east of Ukraine, he said that the army succeeded reduce attack potential Russian invasion troops in Ukraine Donetsk regionbut the situation remains there extremely complex.
“Every day, heavy fighting takes place in the direction of Kurachov and Pokrovsk. But we are doing our best for the resilience of our combat brigades,” he said in his regular evening briefing speech Zelensky. “And separately: operations in the Kursk region. About 40,000 Russian soldiers have already been diverted in this direction. Our active actions continue,” he added.
Similar statements by individual parties to the conflict cannot be directly independently verified in the conditions of war. Radio Free Europe/Radio Freedom (RFE/RL) pointed out today that there are conflicting reports coming from the Kursk region about the development of the fighting, given by the Ukrainians and the Russians. While the Russian military has said it has advanced there, the Ukrainian military says the Russian counteroffensive has stalled.
Russian commander Apti Alaudinov said Russian troops recaptured two villages: Nikolajevo-Darino and Darino. According to Reuters, capturing these villages would allow the Russians to attack Sverdlikovo, which the Ukrainians use as a logistics center.
Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskyi, a spokesman for the regional command of the Ukrainian forces, however, told AFP a day earlier that the Russian counteroffensive in the Kursk region had been stopped. “The Russians tried to attack on the flanks, but they were stopped. The situation is stabilized and everything is under control today,” an army spokesman said on Wednesday.
Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The Ukrainians partially repelled the invasion of Russian troops into their country and recaptured some of their territories. But the Russians continue to occupy parts of the Ukrainian regions in the east and south of the country, and fighting continues.
At the beginning of August, the Ukrainian army penetrated into Russia’s Kursk region and occupied part of Russian territory, according to Kyiv, it controlled around a hundred villages and 1,300 square kilometers of Russian territory. Now the Ukrainians there are facing a counterattack by Russian troops, and Moscow has said in recent days that it has recaptured a number of villages.
According to the media, Kyiv hoped, among other things, that offensive in the Kursk region will force Moscow to move its troops from eastern Ukraine and will thus slow down her progress there, but The Russians continue to push in the direction of the city of Pokrovsk. Alaudinov claimed today that Russian invasion troops have advanced everywhere, including in eastern Ukraine.
Source: zpravy.tiscali.cz
