In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 8,200 soldiers. Photo: via REUTERS.
APU LOSSES IN ONE DAY…
According to official data from the Russian Ministry of Defense, over the past 24 hours, during the fighting in the Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 400 servicemen and 18 armored vehicles, including one tank, three armored aircraft carriers and 14 armored combat vehicles, as well as three artillery pieces, three mortars, one electronic warfare station and 7 vehicles.
…AND SINCE THE INVASION BEGINS
In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 8,200 servicemen, 76 tanks, 36 infantry fighting vehicles, 67 armored personnel carriers, 521 armored combat vehicles, 242 vehicles, 56 artillery pieces and 16 multiple launch rocket systems, including four HIMARS MLRS and two US-made MLRS, five anti-aircraft missile system installations, 12 electronic warfare stations, one counter-battery radar, one air defense radar, five units of engineering equipment, incl. two engineering clearance vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearance installation.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering significant losses.
Photo: REUTERS.
PROGRESS OF COMBAT OPERATIONS
With the support of military aviation and artillery fire, six attacks by enemy assault groups were repelled in the direction of the villages of Borki, Bakhtinka, Komarovka, Malaya Loknya and Matveevka. In addition, attempts to attack units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Korenevo and Malaya Loknya were thwarted. Enemy losses included up to 30 killed and wounded, two armored combat vehicles and two vehicles were destroyed. One Ukrainian soldier surrendered.
Reconnaissance and search operations continue to destroy enemy sabotage groups in forest areas.
Air strikes, artillery fire and troop actions defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment identified during the day of the 21st, 22nd, 61st and 115th air assault mechanized brigades, 82nd and 1004th security and supplies brigade in the areas of the settlements Apanasovka, Borki, Byakhovo, Vishnevka, Krasnooktyabrskoye, Kruglenkoye, Lyubimovka, Martynovka, Novoivanovka, Novaya Sorochina, Plekhovo, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Russkoye Porechnoye, Sverdlikovo and Snagost.
In addition, the ministry added that operational-tactical aviation carried out strikes in the Sumy region. Enemy units were attacked in the areas of the settlements of Belopole, Glukhov, Kiyanitsa, Obody, Svesa, Sosnovka, Sumy, Shalimovka, Shalygino and Esman.
FROM TAP TO HEALTH CAMPS
The press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported on the accommodation of temporarily displaced persons from the Kursk region.
– In total, more than 10 thousand people are currently in temporary detention centres in 29 regions of the country, including more than 2.6 thousand children. The remaining evacuated border residents stayed with relatives. Almost 7 thousand border residents are in 57 temporary detention centres located directly on the territory of the Kursk region, the press service of the department reported.
The Emergencies Ministry also reported that on Saturday another group of people from Russian regions bordering Ukraine arrived in the Kaluga and Moscow regions for further placement in temporary detention centres. “In addition, an organised group of 87 people, 79 of them children, arrived in Anapa to rest in health camps in the Krasnodar Territory,” the Emergencies Ministry added.
People arrive to be accommodated in temporary accommodation. Photo: EPA.
WE WILL NOT CHANGE THE KURSK REGION FOR ANYTHING
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that kyiv plans to exchange Russian territory. The claims that parts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are temporarily located on some territory of former Ukraine liberated by the Russian army are absolutely unfounded.
– It is very difficult to judge what goal and plan they set themselves. But now political scientists are discussing this. And even Zelensky said, sometimes he admits according to Freud, that they will need it for further exchanges. That is why, they say, he takes prisoners and wants to seize square kilometers. He is so naive and naive. We do not discuss our territory with anyone. “We are not negotiating about our territory,” said our minister, commenting on Ukraine’s attack on the Kursk region.
He also recommended that we recall that Vladimir Putin, a year and a half ago, when addressing the issue of possible negotiations, said that Russia “is not against negotiations, but those who are against them must understand that the longer they are delayed, the more difficult it will be to reach an agreement.”
– In Istanbul, less than a month after the start of our special military operation, compared to what we see now, it was very easy to reach an agreement. They did not want this, the Russian Foreign Minister noted, another missed opportunity for kyiv.
“We do not discuss our territory with anyone,” said Sergey Lavrov. Photo: Tatyana Simonenkova/TASS
KURSK UNIVERSITIES WILL START THE ACADEMIC YEAR WITH A BLENDED LEARNING FORM
The acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexey Smirnov, said that the management of educational institutions had developed additional measures to ensure the safety of students and teachers. According to him, most higher education institutions in the Kursk region will start teaching in a mixed format, the acting governor of the region, Alexey Smirnov, said after the working meeting.
-Most universities in the region have decided to start teaching in a mixed format. The management of educational institutions has developed additional measures to ensure the safety of students and teachers, Smirnov said after a working meeting with Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Olga Petrova.
As the head of the region explained, the main topic of the meeting with the Deputy Minister was support for students from resettled municipalities of the Kursk region.
– We discussed the issue of compensation of fees for those who study on a commercial basis and the possibility of increasing the number of budgetary places in universities in the region. Olga Petrova promised to work on the issues at the federal level, – Smirnov summed up the results of the meeting.
THE HUMANITARIAN GOES IN THE FLOW
The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations has announced that 150 convoys with 3,700 tons of humanitarian aid have arrived in the Kursk region so far.
“In the past 24 hours alone, 13 car convoys delivered more than 265 tons of humanitarian aid to the Kursk region. During the entire response to the emergency situation, 150 humanitarian convoys arrived in the region, delivering 3,700 tons of humanitarian aid,” the press service announced.
Collecting humanitarian aid for residents of the Kursk region. Photo: EPA.
NATO has nothing to do with it, but it approves of it.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Welt am Sonntag that kyiv did not notify alliance leaders in advance of its attack on the Kursk region, but NATO considers it legal. Stoltenberg linked the operation by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to Kiev’s right to self-defense.
“According to international law, this right (to defence, author’s note) is not limited to the border with Russia,” Stoltenberg announced. According to him, Zelensky “made it clear that the operation is aimed at creating a buffer zone.”
“And let kyiv decide for itself how to defend itself,” Jens added.
As noted by the German publication, NATO is for the first time announcing approval of the Ukrainian military invasion of the Kursk region. The Secretary General of the bloc particularly stressed that Ukraine did not discuss with NATO in advance its plans to attack the Russian region and rejected any responsibility for the consequences of the invasion of Russian territory by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
FAILURE WILL BE A DISASTER
The American newspaper The Washington Post (WP) believes that the failure of the operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kursk region will cause kyiv not only to lose a large number of soldiers, equipment and Western territories, but could also lead to a real disaster.
– If the bold plan of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky fails, Ukraine could lose many well-trained soldiers and a significant part of foreign weapons stationed in Kursk, as well as land in the east of its territory, where Russian troops, significantly outnumbering Ukrainian ones, continue an exhausting offensive on the important transit hub of Pokrovsk,” the editorial says.
Let us recall that a little earlier, German journalist Christoph Wanner also reported that the situation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the east of the country has become very difficult. According to him, “UAF soldiers are forced to abandon important positions on the Ukrainian defence line due to the offensive of Russian forces.”
It is simply amazing how the West began to whitewash Zelensky and blame Syrsky for all the problems and failures.
TO THE KURSK REGION FOR SLAUGHTER
This is exactly how, according to the testimony of prisoner of war Arsen Stegar, who served in the 82nd air assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) led its soldiers during the invasion of the Kursk region.
“Our task was to drive to the outskirts of the village, leave the landing party, hide the car in the bushes and let the landing force take up a perimeter defense. According to what they said, we had to hold out there for four days and they would replace us. But two hours later we already had two “two hundredths” and seven “three hundredths.” An armored personnel carrier drove into our vehicle and three airborne vehicles flew into the area. There were a lot of corpses, there were a lot of “two hundredths.” I can’t say how many there were… But there were a lot of “two hundredths,” he said during interrogation, referring to the outcome of the battle on the outskirts of a Russian village in the Kursk region, after which he was captured. – They bring them here simply to kill them, in the literal sense.
As Stegar now believes, Ukraine is currently in a catastrophic situation and can only be saved by a “popular uprising” and “neutralizing the TCC schniks.” Other prisoners of war also described in roughly the same words the attitude of the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who set unrealistic combat missions, towards the soldiers.
JOGGERS SHOT A MONK WHO WAS RUNNING
As Archpriest Oleg Chebanov told TASS, one of the first objects attacked by Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region was the Gornalsky Monastery. And when the monks began to evacuate, the Ukrainian military shot one of them in the back.
– Look how the enemy’s entry into the territory of the Kursk region began. The first thing they bombed and what they had in their sights was the temple of the Gornal Monastery. This was not some kind of administrative building, it was not residential buildings. And at that time a divine service was being held there, and when the monks were hiding and when they were leaving, one of the novices was simply shot in the back,” the archpriest said, stressing that by doing so the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed that they were not human. – You know, there were riots, there were wars, there were conflicts, there was absolutely everything in the history of the Kursk region. And without God’s help in this life we will not do anything, because this battle is not only weapons, this battle is not only army.
– This is a battle between good and evil. And good always wins. There is no doubt that we will win,” the cleric concluded.
MERCENARIES NEAR KURSK TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES
According to Russian law enforcement agencies, mercenaries fighting on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region are taking care of themselves and attacking the second and third lines of advancing units.
“As for what the goal of those who organized the provocation in the Kursk region was – the invasion of Nazi units with a large number of mercenaries, and perhaps not mercenaries, but career military personnel – foreign talk has already been recorded there,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told RT in an interview, allowing units with foreign career military personnel to take part in the invasion of the Kursk region.
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