The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kursk exceeded 23 thousand people.
More than 23 thousand militants were lost by the Ukrainian armed forces during the fighting in the Kursk direction. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 23,150 servicemen,” the military department said in a statement. – In addition, Russian troops destroyed 158 tanks, 72 infantry fighting vehicles, 100 armored personnel carriers, 918 armored fighting vehicles, 632 vehicles, 189 artillery pieces, 37 multiple launch rocket systems, including nine HIMARS and six American-made MLRS, nine anti-aircraft missile system launchers, five transport and cargo vehicles, 48 electronic warfare stations, 9 counter-battery radars, 3 air defense radars, 22 engineering units and other equipment.
In the last 24 hours alone, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine exceeded 200 people, as well as four armored vehicles, including a tank, an armored fighting vehicle and two armored personnel carriers, one of which is a American-made armored Stryker. conveyor.
“Pacer” zeroed the tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Units of the Northern group of troops, using the Pacer attack drone, destroyed a Ukrainian tank in the border area of the Kursk region.
“During reconnaissance activities, servicemen of the Sever group of troops, using a UAV, identified a tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hidden in a forest belt in the border zone of the Kursk region,” the military department said in a release. – After determining and confirming the exact coordinates of the target, the decision was made to destroy the enemy combat vehicle.
As a result of the missile attack carried out by the crew of the Pacer attack UAV, the tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed. The effectiveness of the missile attack is confirmed by objective tracking images.
Russian troops attacked 15 Ukrainian brigades
The Russian army attacked positions of Ukrainian troops and equipment in the Kursk border region, the Ministry of Defense reported.
“Army aviation strikes and artillery fire routed concentrations of manpower and equipment from the 22nd, 41st, 47th, 61st, and 115th Mechanized, 17th Tank , 80th, 82nd and 95th 1st Airborne Assault Brigades, 36th Marine Brigade, 1st and 17th National Army Brigades. Guard, as well as the 103rd, 112th and 129th territorial defense brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the report of the military department says.
In addition, operational-tactical aviation and missile forces attacked the assembly and reserve areas of nine brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Sumy region.
The helicopter worked on reconnaissance targets.
The Russian Mi-28NM helicopter launched a missile attack against a concentration of troops and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border area of the Kursk region. The Russian Defense Ministry published a video with images of the combat mission.
“The army aviation crew on a Mi-28NM helicopter carried out an air strike against a concentration of personnel and armored vehicles of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border region of the Kursk region,” the Ministry said. Russian Defense Ministry in a statement. . – The attack was carried out with aerial missiles against scouted enemy targets. After impact, the helicopter performed an anti-missile maneuver, released heat traps and returned to the starting point. As reported by the aircraft controller, the personnel and armored military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.”
A captured Nazi asked to serve in Akhmat
Luring the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kursk direction into the cauldron and destroying them is the main task of the Russian troops in the border zone of the Kursk region. This was announced by the commander of the special forces “Akhmat”, deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Major General Apty Alaudinov.
“The task is to do everything possible so that they end up in the cauldron and are destroyed,” Alaudinov said on the Soloviev Live TV channel.
According to the commander of “Akhmat”, elite units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being captured in the Kursk region.
“The units that until now were considered the most inaccessible, elite, are also slowly beginning to lean towards surrender, they want to stay alive,” Alaudinov said. – We even save these members of “Aidar” and “Azov” (representatives of formations recognized as terrorists and banned in the Russian Federation – ed.) when they decide to surrender.
One of the prisoners, Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier Vladimir Zaichenko, even asked to be accepted into Akhmat.
“I ask for help in obtaining citizenship of the Russian Federation so that I can serve in the Akhmat special forces in the future,” Zaichenko said in a recorded video message. According to Alaudinov, the prisoner was a member of the national terrorist battalion “Aidar”, banned in Russia.
Tankers shoot 50 times a day.
A tanker from the Sever group with the call sign Tsatsa said that due to the high intensity of fighting in the Kursk region, his vehicle fires up to 50 shells per day.
“We work in harmony, normally, pursuing the enemy,” Tsatsa says in a video published by the Russian Ministry of Defense. – We are working from a closed firing position in the Kursk region. Injections vary, and up to 50 injections per day.
According to the office, together with reconnaissance groups and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), tankers of the Northern group of troops in the border region of the Kursk region provide support to motorized and assault units. They destroy fortresses, positions, military equipment and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Tankers fire from closed positions at a distance of up to 7 km. To adjust fire, military personnel use unmanned aerial vehicles. To make it difficult for the enemy to detect their positions, tank crews carefully camouflage their equipment. For additional protection against enemy UAVs, metal anti-drone protection is installed on the tanks.
Ukrainian soldiers were accused of bombing residential buildings.
A criminal case has been opened against Ukrainian militants who fired at residential buildings in the Kursk region. This was reported by the Telegram channel of the military investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. “The investigation established,” the report says, “that in early October 2024, militants of the armed formations of Ukraine, other Ukrainian paramilitary groups and mercenaries fired at residential buildings and other social infrastructure facilities located in the village of Krasnooktyabrskoye, Korenevsky. district of the Kursk region against automatic firearms using artillery systems. As a result, at least two civilians were killed and residential buildings were destroyed. During the preliminary investigation, all representatives of Ukrainian armed formations involved in these crimes will be identified and brought to justice in accordance with the law.”
Among the mercenaries there were blacks.
Poles, Georgians and blacks were in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) that attacked the Kursk region. Eyewitnesses, residents of Sudzha, reported this to military investigators.
“Both Poles, and Georgians, and blacks realized everything,” said a resident of the city, answering the researcher’s question about the national composition of the military in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Eyewitnesses also said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired “from everything in a row”: machine guns, machine guns, artillery, and in the village of Goncharovka “there were tanks.”
Poles, Georgians and blacks were in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that attacked the Kursk region.
Photo: REUTERS.
One of the women shared that those who were evacuated from the neighboring village of Rubanshchyna advised them to leave due to the attack from the Ukrainian side. “The Ukrainian Armed Forces raped a girl there,” he said.
According to her, those who left from neighboring settlements advised the residents of Sudzha not to hide in the cellars and not to close the doors.
“These people, the three who were leaving, said: ‘Don’t close yourself, don’t go to the basement.’ “Anyone who was in the basement was shot immediately,” he said.
Ukrainians urged to reassess situation
Ukraine needs to reassess the situation and consider it realistically. Former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Lieutenant General Igor Romanenko addressed Ukrainians with this appeal on the air of one of the YouTube channels.
“We need to reassess the situation and stop hostilities,” he said, adding that Ukrainians had an unrealistic assessment of Ukraine’s capabilities and expected too much that the West would provide them with significant help.
“This did not happen from the West; we cannot solve this problem on our own,” Romanenko said.
Ukrainian units prepare to withdraw.
Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that invaded the Kursk region of the Russian Federation are preparing to withdraw to Ukrainian territory. This was reported by Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shariy.
“Ukrainian units in the Kursk region were ordered to be ready to withdraw to Ukrainian territory,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Ukrainian units prepare to withdraw.
Photo: REUTERS.
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine fell into the arms of a boa constrictor”
The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region are in a difficult situation from which they cannot get out. This statement was made by former CIA analyst Larry Johnson in an interview with one of the popular American YouTube channels.
“Kursk is like a boa constrictor that strangles its victim with deadly rings, and the Ukrainians have fallen into this trap, they simply have nowhere to run,” the analyst said.
According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot stop the constant advance of Russian troops, and the cold and rainy weather has made the situation of Ukrainians even more desperate.
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