Volunteers collect humanitarian aid for residents of the Kursk region
Photo: REUTERS.
Four hundred more: Russian Defense Ministry spoke about losses of Ukrainian Armed Forces near Kursk
During the day, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk direction amounted to more than 400 servicemen and 23 armored vehicles, including, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Leopard tank.
“In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 14,600 servicemen,” the Russian military department reported, “in addition, 121 tanks, 50 infantry fighting vehicles, 92 armored personnel carriers, 758 armored combat vehicles, 457 vehicles, 107 artillery pieces, 28 multiple launch rocket system launchers, including seven HIMARS and six MLRS made in the USA, 8 launchers for anti-aircraft missile systems, four transport-loading vehicles, 26 electronic warfare stations, 7 counter-battery radars, two air defense radars, 14 units of engineering equipment, including eight engineering clearance vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearance unit.
Only one prisoner remains from the Ukrainian GRD
Marines of the 810th brigade of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group in the Kursk region, RIA Novosti reported, citing a representative of Russian law enforcement agencies.
“Soldiers of the 810th Marine Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet set up an ambush and lured a group of Ukrainian saboteurs,” a serviceman told the agency. – As a result of the battle, the entire DRG was destroyed. One Ukrainian intelligence officer was captured.
Aviation reaches Sumy region and Kursk border
Russian Army aviation attacked 20 brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kursk and Sumy regions, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
“Air strikes, artillery fire and troop actions,” the Russian Defense Ministry reported, “defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of the 22nd, 41st and 115th mechanized, 17th tank, 80th, 82nd and 95th air assault brigades, 1,004th security brigade, as well as the 112th and 129th territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Guevo, Darino, Kurilovka, Kruglenkoye, Lyubimovka, Mirny, Martynovka, Malaya Loknya, Nikolo-Daryino, Novaya Path, Novaya Sorochina, Novoivanovka, Orlovka, Plekhovo, Russkoye Porechnoye, Serdlikovo, Tolsty Lug and Yuzhny.”
In addition, according to the RF Ministry of Defense, operational-tactical aviation and missile forces carried out strikes against concentration areas in the Sumy region and reserves of the 21st, 22nd, 41st and 115th air assault mechanized brigades, 82nd Armed Forces of Ukraine, 1st brigade of the National Guard, as well as 103rd, 106th, 107th and 129th territorial defense brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Belovody, Glukhov, Kondratovka, Katerynivka, Malushino, Mogritsa, Mazevka, Novoivanovka, Obody, Pavlovka, Rechki, Rudnevo, Sumy, Stepnoe, Shalygino, Khoten and Yunakovka.
Pontoon crossings of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed
The Russian military destroyed two pontoon crossings installed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region, Deputy Head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry, Commander of the Akhmat Special Forces Major General Apty Alaudinov told TASS.
“The enemy pulled the pontoon and tried to drag people onto it,” Alaudinov said. – Both pontoons that were moved this week were destroyed. The enemy in this area lost its river crossings.
He said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are now trying unsuccessfully to hold their positions. At the same time, units of the Russian Armed Forces are advancing daily.
They planned to attack the Russian train with NATO weapons
Ukrainian armed forces wanted to blow up a passenger train in the Kursk region. POW Alexander Gusak told RIA Novosti about plans to carry out a terrorist attack on the Russian railway. He added that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were planning to use weapons from NATO countries to carry out a terrorist attack on the railway in the Kursk region. POW Alexander Gusak told RIA Novosti about this.
“There were two machine guns, either German or American made,” the agency’s interlocutor said. He also noted that all the assault rifles, except for a Kalashnikov, were of NATO manufacture. “It says NATO, 5.56 for .45 caliber,” the POW said.
A New Zealand mercenary was the target of…
Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against Jordan O’Brien, a New Zealand mercenary fighting for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
According to the investigation, O’Brien was an instructor for units of the Ukrainian armed forces; now he personally participates in the armed conflict as a mercenary. He and other mercenaries, together with Ukrainian security forces, armed and using explosive devices and military equipment, illegally crossed the state border of the Russian Federation and invaded the Kursk region.
“After the invasion, with the aim of intimidating the population, causing significant material damage and destabilizing the activities of the authorities, they committed criminal acts aimed at killing and attempting to kill the civilian population,” the department added.
The investigation is currently in progress to establish the whereabouts of the accused and his accomplices. It is noted that during the investigation all the circumstances of the crimes will be revealed and a criminal legal assessment will be made of the actions of the persons involved in their commission.
…and the Ukrainian parachutist was put on the wanted list
Yulia Lapych, a serviceman of the 80th separate air assault brigade of the armed formations of Ukraine (UFU), who took part in the shelling of civilians in the Kursk region, has been put on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia in Russia, law enforcement agencies have informed TASS about this.
“Lapych has been included in the international wanted list as part of a criminal case on terrorism,” the agency was told. – A preventive measure was chosen against her consisting of detention for a period of two months from the moment of her arrest.
Lapych is thus the first Ukrainian military officer to be included in the wanted list and arrested in absentia for being involved in shelling civilians in the Kursk region.
To battle – on motorcycles
Soldiers of Zaporozhye region units participating in the hostilities in the Kursk region have received motocross motorcycles, according to the Zaporozhye region governor Evgeniy Balitsky.
“The Foundation for the Promotion of Security and Defense named after Sudoplatov handed over to the guys in the Kursk direction light and maneuverable motorcycles necessary for carrying out combat missions. We are constantly in touch with the guys and the command of the Zaporozhye units,” Balitsky wrote on his Telegram channel.
Earlier, the governor announced that the 4th assault battalion of the Alexander Nevsky brigade, stationed in the Zaporozhye region, had been sent to the Kursk region to support other Russian units.
Ukrainian Armed Forces looting: they loaded things onto cars with trailers and blew up the house
A resident of the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region, who was evacuated from her home, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces ransacked and blew up her three-story house.
Nadezhda Lisikhina, 77, and her husband have been living in a temporary detention centre in Zheleznogorsk for two months.
– Our house was bombed. We escaped from there on August 10, – said the pensioner. – Because we were under terrible shelling, there was no light, no communications, no water, and the gas was cut off. We did not know then that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were already in Sudzha, our houses were on the outskirts.
My husband and I went to see our son near Rylsk, stayed overnight, wanted to go back, but he didn’t let us go.
“The next day there was machine-gun fire all over the village and we had to run into the forest to spend the night,” Nadezhda recalls. – The son gathered the villagers who could go, seven cars of us, we went to spend the night in the forest. No one was hurt then.
She needed insulin because of diabetes; she couldn’t get it in Rylsk, so she and her husband went to Zheleznogorsk, where she was given a prescription without any problems, and her son and daughter-in-law went to Kursk.
Nadezhda complained that her three-storey house with all the amenities, a vegetable garden, a greenhouse, blooming roses – all this is no longer in Makhnovka. A neighbour told her that Ukrainian soldiers loaded property onto cars with trailers and then blew up the house. The same fate, she said, befell her neighbours.
100 Neighbor Games
Volunteers from Belgorod delivered the humanitarian cargo to a temporary accommodation point (TAP) in the Kursk region.
“Today we have come to the Kursk region to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of Sudzhansky and Glushkovsky districts who are in a temporary accommodation centre,” said Margarita Sazonova, director of the Russian Order Foundation. – Russians do not abandon their own, so how can we abandon our neighbours? It is not known what situation we will find ourselves in tomorrow; perhaps we will need help too. Therefore, as long as we can, we will help.
The Foundation provided the temporary detention center with more than 100 individual sets of household chemicals, blankets and warm robes for women, clothing and shoes.
“They know what a problem it is when you want to wear something, when you need the most essential things… People came with just a bag, or even just with documents,” Olga Prezenko, a resident of the village of Tyotkino in the Kursk region, thanked the neighbouring region for its help.
In Abkhazia, too, aid is being collected for residents of border areas
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Abkhazia has opened a special account to which anyone can transfer funds to help residents of the Russian Kursk region. This was announced at a press conference by the Minister of Emergency Situations and Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Abkhazia for Interaction with the New Russian Regions Lev Kvitsinia.
– We are interacting with new regions of the Russian Federation and are in constant contact with the leadership. Since the creation of the Northern Military District, Abkhazia has tried to provide all possible assistance and since 2022 about 300 tons of humanitarian cargo have been sent there, to Donbass, mostly citrus fruits, bottled water and local food products. Now we are preparing to send the next batch of humanitarian cargo to the Kursk region – a special account of the Ministry of Emergency Situations has been opened to which funds can be transferred. We use them to buy food, water and bedding for the affected residents of the Kursk region,” he said.
According to Kvitsinia, volunteers from Abkhazia are taking part in the SVO in Ukraine and, according to preliminary information, about 47 Abkhazians have already been killed.
“From the very beginning, the Ministry of Emergency Situations has taken responsibility for the return of the bodies of the dead children to their homeland; we are trying to do everything possible to return to Abkhazia, we are in contact with the relatives of the victims,” the minister said.
They expanded the front, and nothing more.
By deciding to attack the Kursk region, Ukrainian troops only expanded the contact zone and worsened their position. This statement was made by former NATO adviser and retired colonel of the Swiss General Staff Jacques Bo in an interview with one of the popular Western YouTube channels.
“The situation has only worsened,” he said. – If we look at the front line, the Ukrainians are not able to create a concentration of forces sufficient to resist Russian pressure. By invading the Kursk region, they simply expanded their front line and lost additional troops.
Jacques Beau recalled that the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered heavy losses of personnel and material. The colonel believes that this is due to the lack of strategic thinking in the Ukrainian army.
“The Ukrainians have lost valuable assets in the Kursk region, which they could have used more efficiently, for example, in the Krasnoarmeysk area,” Bo concluded.
