2024-08-07 17:43:10
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has described the alleged attack by the Ukrainian Army on the Kursk region, in the border region between the two countries, as a “great outrage.” Putin has said before a meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation in Moscow that the Ukrainian army is carrying out “indiscriminate bombings on civilian targets.” Early this Wednesday afternoon, the head of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, told the President that the advance had been halted by Russian troops, Reuters reports, but that fighting was continuing in some border areas.
No official source in Kyiv has commented on what would be the first attack by the Ukrainian army on Russian territory. Previous incursions into Russian territories launched from the country that fought so far in the war, days ago, were carried out by paramilitary groups against the Russians. Putin.
Russian military sources have estimated the alleged losses of the Ukrainian army in the area of Kursk, located in the Sumi region of Ukraine, at 260 soldiers killed and 50 armored vehicles destroyed, including seven tanks. Russia maintains that the damaged and abandoned vehicles in Russian territory, seven kilometers from the border, geolocated images released this Tuesday, belong to the Ukrainian army.
However, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which conducts a daily analysis of the large-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, who has not been able to confirm or deny that these vehicles are Russian, Ukrainian or from both. ISW was also unable to verify the authenticity of images published by Russian military bloggers of the results of the alleged Ukrainian attacks. “Most of the damage shown in the images appears to be the result of regular Ukrainian bombing and does not indicate that there is ground activity in the area,” reports from the US analysis center.
The governor of the Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, has reported on social networks that the situation is “under control”, but has added that “several thousand” residents of areas close to the conflict have been evacuated and the The authorities have provided shelters. for 2,500 displaced people. More than 300 people, including 121 children, have already been evacuated. All public events have been canceled in the region, with just over one million residents. On Wednesday afternoon, Governor Smirnov declared a state of emergency in the region. In televised statements, Gerasimov has said that Russian forces continue to “destroy the enemy” in areas close to the border.
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Russia said the attack began last Tuesday morning, when it said 300 Ukrainian soldiers supported by 11 tanks and more than 20 anti-aircraft missiles, according to Russian military sources, attacked the positions of the units guarding the border in the regions of Sudzha and Korenevo, especially in the areas close to the settlements of Nikolaevo-Darino and Oleshnia.
Artillery and air strikes
This Wednesday morning, the Ministry of Defense of Russia reported that fighting continues for the second consecutive day, but that both the Armed Forces and the border guards are preventing the advance of Ukrainian troops. “Air attacks, missiles, artillery fire and the actions of units covering the state border of the armed forces in the direction of Kursk prevented the enemy from advancing far into the territory of the Russian Federation,” he said. Therefore, civilians three have been killed and 24 wounded since the fighting began, 13 of whom have been hospitalized, according to Russian officials.
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, has urged the international community to “strongly condemn the crimes of the Kiev government,” reported the Russian RIA Novosti agency. “Kyiv, with the barbaric attack in the Kursk region, has tried to sow panic and present a semblance of activity against the background of the constant failures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” he said.
Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory have occurred at least since last year, but mainly with the launch of drones against targets such as refineries.
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