Ukraine has launched a recent offensive in Russia’s Kursk area, the Russian Defence Ministry says.
In an announcement, the navy stated efforts to destroy the Ukrainian assault teams are ongoing. Officers in Ukraine have additionally advised an operation is beneath method.
Ukraine first launched its incursion into Russia’s Kursk area in August final yr, seizing a big chunk of territory.
In latest months, Russian forces have made large beneficial properties within the space, pushing the Ukrainians again, however failing to eject them fully.
In an announcement posted on Telegram on Sunday, Russia’s defence ministry stated: “At round 9am Moscow time, to be able to cease the offensive by the Russian troops within the Kursk route, the enemy launched a counter-attack by an assault detachment consisting of two tanks, one counter-obstacle automobile, and 12 armoured preventing automobiles.”
The top of Ukraine’s presidential workplace, Andriy Yermak, stated there “was excellent news from Kursk Area” and that Russia was “getting what it deserves”.
Ukraine’s prime counter-disinformation official Andriy Kovalenko stated in a Telegram put up on Sunday: “The Russians in Kursk are experiencing nice anxiousness as a result of they have been attacked from a number of instructions and it got here as a shock to them.”
It is unclear whether or not the offensive is sufficiently large-scale to result in any important adjustments on the frontline.
Kyiv’s forces are reportedly affected by manpower shortages and have been dropping floor within the east of Ukraine in latest months, as Russian troops advance.
It comes because the Ukrainian Air Power stated Russia launched one other drone assault on Ukraine in a single day.
It stated it had shot down 61 drones over Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, and Khmelnytskyy areas
There have been no direct hits, however a number of homes have been broken in Kharkiv Area by an intercepted drone, the air drive stated.
In November, Ukraine reported its troops had engaged in fight with North Korean troops within the Kursk area.
The looks of North Korean troopers was in response to a shock assault launched throughout the border by Ukrainian troops in August, advancing as much as 18 miles (30km) into Russian land.
Moscow evacuated virtually 200,000 individuals from areas alongside the border and President Vladimir Putin condemned the Ukrainian offensive as a “main provocation”.
After a fortnight, Ukraine’s prime commander claimed to manage greater than 1,200 sq km of Russian territory and 93 villages.
A few of that territory has been regained by Russia however Ukraine nonetheless has troops within the Kursk area.
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, 2025-01-05 12:23:00
