Russian Mi-28NM helicopter destroyed personnel and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border area of the Kursk region.
Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The Russian Defense Ministry calculated the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk direction per day are more than 340 servicemen.
“During the day, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to more than 340 servicemen and 12 armored fighting vehicles, as well as four artillery pieces and 11 vehicles,” the Russian military department reported.
In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 17,400 servicemen, 130 tanks, 62 infantry fighting vehicles, 95 armored personnel carriers, 824 armored fighting vehicles, 525 vehicles, 142 artillery pieces and 31 multiple launch launchers. rocket systems, including eight US-made HIMARS and six MLRS, eight anti-aircraft missile system launchers, five transport and cargo vehicles, 35 electronic warfare stations, eight counterbattery radars, two air defense radars, 18 engineering units and other equipment, of which 11 engineering cleaning vehicles, a missile cleaning facility (77), as well as an armored repair and recovery vehicle.
He repelled the counterattack and went on the offensive
The Russian servicemen of the Northern group repelled the counterattack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of the Obukhovka settlement in Kursk. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, enemy losses in this combat contact alone amounted to 15 people killed and wounded.
“Over the past 24 hours, the group’s units repelled an enemy counterattack in the direction of the village of Obukhovka. As a result, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 15 people killed and wounded, two armored fighting vehicles and one car were destroyed,” the report of the military department says.
In addition, as noted in the report, units of the Northern group of troops continued offensive operations and defeated the formations of the 21st, 22nd and 41st mechanized brigades, the 17th tank brigade, the 95th air assault brigade, the 36th infantry brigade. as well as the 112th and 129th territorial defense brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lyubimovka, Darino, Novy Put, Nikolaevo-Daryino and Plekhovo areas.
Self-propelled gun destroyed by direct hit
The Russian Defense Ministry published a video with images of the destruction of the Akatsiya self-propelled artillery unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The attack was carried out with Lancet ammunition in the border area of the Kursk region.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the firing point was discovered through aerial reconnaissance by the North group. The self-propelled gun was located near a forest area in the border area of the Kursk region.
“The detected target was successfully hit by a direct hit from the Lancet loitering munition. Objective control of the destruction of a self-propelled artillery installation was carried out using aerial reconnaissance in real time,” the video description reads.
The footage shows how the Akatsiya crew flees from the Ukrainian self-propelled gun, after which the ammunition hits and causes a fire.
“Night Stalker” attacked with missiles
Russian Mi-28NM helicopter destroyed personnel and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the border area of the Kursk region.
“An army aviation crew on a Mi-28NM helicopter launched an airstrike 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 Russian Defense Ministry said. in a statement.
Helicopter pilots reportedly launched an air-launched missile attack against scouted enemy targets. After using the weapons, Night Hunter returned safely to the starting place.
“According to intelligence reports, personnel and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were successfully destroyed,” the Russian Defense Ministry clarified.
The Russian Guard destroyed 40 drones
The special forces of the Russian Guard destroyed about 40 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles during the performance of service and combat missions within the framework of the anti-terrorist operation in the Kursk region.
“In total, during the performance of service and combat missions in the Kursk region within the framework of the CTO, the special forces of the Russian Guard shot down and suppressed with the help of electronic warfare about 40 unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including homemade types and FPV drones,” the press service of the central district of the Russian Guard troops reports.
The militants hid the body in the refrigerator.
Russian security forces, while clearing a liberated settlement in the Kursk region, found the body of a Ukrainian militant in an industrial refrigerator, apparently abandoned there by his colleagues who had fled during the retreat. A representative of the Russian security forces told RIA Novosti and provided the corresponding video.
“During the clearing of one of the settlements in the Kursk region, our unit found an industrial refrigerator in the basement of a residential building, probably stolen from a store,” said the Russian military officer. – The body of a serviceman from the Armed Forces of Ukraine was found in the refrigerator, which may indicate that the Ukrainian army is not evacuating all of its dead.
Investigators questioned more than 8 thousand victims.
According to the Investigative Committee of Russia, more than 8,000 citizens have been recognized as victims in the case of the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk region.
“In temporary refugee accommodation centers, investigators questioned and recognized more than eight thousand people as victims,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement. – Within the framework of the preliminary investigation, facts were recorded about the selective use of FPV drones and heavy machine guns by Ukrainian militants against civilians in the Kursk region.
A resident of a border village escaped the drones on a bicycle
A man from a border village in the Kursk region was unable to evacuate by car due to the Ukrainian Armed Forces deliberately attacking cars with drones. According to his wife, they forced him to leave on a bicycle.
According to the woman, she and her children were evacuated on August 6 and her husband, a few days later.
“I rode my bike because there was no other way,” he said. – If you are in a car, they will launch a drone at you immediately. He doesn’t sit back and explode. It is better to move on foot or under trees so that no one sees you.
The woman’s information was recorded by military investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee.
The Kyiv regime mobilized even the sick to invade the Kursk region
The Ukrainian authorities urge sick citizens who arrived by force to update their data in territorial recruitment centers (TCC, military registration and enlistment offices). Yaroslav Malaschuk, a soldier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who was captured, spoke about this.
“We passed a law; We had to update the data in the TCC before July 16, so I went, accordingly, on July 8,” he said. – They told me: “The next day you will come in the morning and we will go to the medical commission”… There they did not look at illnesses, they gave me all the “fit” stamps and they sent me immediately at night, they said that I was mobilized.
According to him, he had not served before, as he was discharged for health reasons. But they still mobilized him and sent him to the Kursk region.
Another prisoner who served in the Ukrainian landing force said that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was spending all its available forces in the Kursk direction to the detriment of all other sectors of the front. According to Russian security officials, the captured paratrooper refused the exchange because he feared he would be sent back to the front.
“They even take the window frames”
Nina Nezhentseva, a resident of Sudzha, Kursk region, told RIA Novosti that soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are engaged in looting, opening the houses of local residents, stealing almost everything and even removing window frames .
“And even the people who left a little later than us said that if they don’t knock on the doors, they’ll break the windows and shoot. There is even something where they cut the window frames and take them away,” Nezhentseva said.
According to the woman, everything in the city has been looted. She and other Suja residents closely follow the release of videos from the city and thus try to understand the state of their homes.
“Shops, markets and residential buildings were looted,” the woman said. – I even came across a video that houses and doors were open everywhere. Some people even now manage to enter their homes. I know of two cases of this type. And in both situations, people, upon entering their homes, discovered the walls bare: all property had been looted.
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