“At 5:30 on August 6, units of the Ukrainian armed forces numbering up to 1,000 went on the offensive with the aim of seizing a section of the territory of the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region,” Gerasimov said in his report at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the security bloc.
The Chief of the General Staff estimated the losses of the Ukrainian group at 315 people, of whom at least 100 were killed.
The advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the Russian Federation has now been halted, Gerasimov said.
Vladimir Putin has described the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces as an armed provocation. According to him, the Kiev regime is “firing indiscriminately from different types of weapons.”
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, previously stated that kyiv is trying to spread panic among residents of Russia’s border regions by attacking peaceful settlements. She also described what happened in the Kursk region as an attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to “simulate some semblance of activity” against the background of the failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
