Russia on Thursday claimed to have recaptured a swath of territory in its western Kursk region, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky conceded Moscow’s troops were mounting a counteroffensive.
Kyiv launched a shock incursion into Russia’s Kursk border region on August 6, advancing kilometres into Russian territory and seizing dozens of settlements.
Russia's army is steadily pushing Ukrainian forces out of the Kursk Region, and will undoubtedly succeed in completing this task, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a roundtable meeting with ambassadors on the Ukrainian issue.
The top Russian diplomat pointed to the fact that NATO member states are talking about this also, behind closed doors. "And there they are promoting ideas that, apparently, it is not quite decent to defend in the public space. We have no such concerns, we have nothing to be embarrassed about," Lavrov emphasized. "In addition, today we would like to present you with information on how the war unleashed by the West against Russia using Ukraine as the vessel is unfolding, a war that would be impossible without the supply of huge amounts of Western weapons, ammunition and military equipment. And there are many unfortunate aspects of this situation, but one of them, of course, is the direct involvement of the Ukrainian armed forces, with direct support from the West, in large-scale terrorist actions," the foreign minister pointed out.
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Russia said Thursday its army had recaptured 10 settlements in its Kursk border region, where Ukraine last month launched a major cross-border incursion.
ReplyDelete“Units of the ‘North’ group of troops liberated 10 settlements within two days,” Russia’s defence ministry said in a statement posted on its Telegram channel.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also conceded Russia had launched its own counterattack in the region, but insisted that Kyiv's shock incursion was still going to plan.
Russia’s Battlegroup Sever has liberated 10 settlements in the Kursk region in two days, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has reported.
ReplyDelete"In the course of offensive actions by units of Battlegroup Sever, within two days 10 settlements were liberated: Apanasovka, Byakhovo, Vishnevka, Viktorovka, Vnezapnoye, Gordeevka, Krasnooktyabrskoye, Obukhovka, Snagost and 10th October," the MoD stated in its report.
The ministry noted that the Russian Armed Forces are continuing actions to eliminate the enemy grouping that entered the Kursk region.