“Good news. Russia got what it deserved,” Andriy Yermak, head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office, said on Sunday. His words appear to confirm the ongoing Ukrainian military offensive in the Kursk region. Meanwhile, the Russian side reports that the attack was repulsed.
“Russians in the Kursk region are very worried after unexpected attacks in some areas of the front,” said Andriy Kovalenko, director of the Center for Counterdisinformation at Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council. he said on social media. Sunday media.
Kovalenko added: “The military is active.”
His report was confirmed on an online platform by Andriy Yermak, head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. “Good news. Russia gets what it deserves,” the politician wrote.
Report from the Russian side: artillery and aviation interrupted the attack on Ukraine
Russian media also wrote about the attack. TASS news agency reported that the enemy launched an operation to thwart the attack of President Vladimir Putin’s soldiers in the Kursk region. The Kremlin says the Ukrainians were stopped.
“The enemy launched a counterattack with an attack group consisting of two tanks, one barrier vehicle and 12 armored fighting vehicles carrying soldiers, towards the village of Berdin,” the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
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The Russian side claims that “the artillery and aviation units of the Ziwer unit defeated the Ukrainian assault force.”
According to information from RIA Novosti, Russian forces planned to eliminate around 340 Ukrainian soldiers, four tanks and more than a dozen armored vehicles.
Ukrainians of Kursk Oblast
Ukrainian troops entered Kursk Oblast on August 6, 2024. It was explained at the time that one of the aims of their attack was to force the Russian military to relocate some of its troops from the Donbas in eastern Ukraine.
At the end of August, Kiev controlled 1,250 square kilometers of territory in the oblast, but in September Ukrainian forces began to lose territory as a result of Russian counterattacks.
See: Problems of Ukrainians in the Kursk Oblast. Russian army is intensifying its offensive
In November, Ukrainian military sources reported that only about 800 square kilometers of Russian territory was under its control.
According to Western sources, more than 10,000 Russians are supporting Russian forces in the fighting in the Kursk region. A soldier from North Korea.
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