Ukrainian forces have launched a surprise counter-attack in Russia's Kursk region, marking a significant shift in the conflict. The incursion, which began on August 6th, has seen Ukrainian troops gain a foothold in the area and put pressure on Russian defenses.
Some 11,000 troops from North Korea have been deployed in the Kursk region, Ukraine estimateshad launched a counter-attack in the Kursk region, an area of western Russia from which Russia n troops have been trying to eject Ukrainian forces for the past five months. Ukrainian troops broke across the border in a surprise incursion on August 6th and have managed to hold on to a chunk of territory there which could provide Kyiv with an important bargaining chip in potential peace talks.
Around 9am Moscow time (6am Irish time), in order to stop the advance of Russian troops in the Kursk direction, the enemy launched a counter-attack with an assault group consisting of two tanks, a mine clearing vehicle and 12 armoured combat vehicles with paratroops towards Berdin village, the Russian ministry for defence said in a statement. Artillery and aviation of the north group of forces defeated the assault group of the Ukrainian armed forces, it added.Reports from Russian war bloggers, who support Moscow’s war in Ukraine but have often reported critically on failings and setbacks, indicated that the latest Ukrainian assault had put Russian forces on the defensive. Despite strong pressure from the enemy, our units are heroically holding the line, the Operativnye Svodki (Operational Reports) channel said. It said artillery and small-arms battles were taking place, and Ukraine was using western-armoured vehicles to bring in large numbers of infantry. The accounts from the ministry for defence and the bloggers said fighting was concentrated just north of a highway that runs from Sudzha, near the border, to Kursk, the regional capital. One blogger, Yuri Podolyak, said this was most likely a Ukrainian distraction manoeuvre, possibly to prepare a strike on Glushkovo, further west. He recommended that civilians there and in another town, Korenevo, to evacuat
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