Ukrainian troops have launched a new attack in Russia's Kursk region, a border area Russia has been struggling to control for the past five months. The attack, which saw Ukrainian forces break across the border, has put pressure on Russian troops and provided a potential bargaining chip for Ukraine in future peace talks.
A Ukrainian soldier walks past a building in Sudzha, Kursk region, Russia, on Aug. 16, 2024. This image was approved by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry before publication. Ukraine had launched a new attack in the Kursk region, an area of western Russia from which Russian troops have been trying to eject Ukrainian forces for the past five months. Ukrainian troops broke across the border in a surprise incursion on Aug.
6 and have managed to hold on to a chunk of territory there which could provide Kyiv with an important bargaining chip in potential peace talks. Russia’s defense ministry said its forces were beating back the Ukrainian forces but some reports from Russian military bloggers suggested the Russian side had come under heavy pressure. Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office, posted on Telegram that there was “good news” from Kursk, adding: “Russia is getting what it deserves.” Andriy Kovalenko, the head of Ukraine’s official Centre Against Disinformation, wrote on Telegram that Russian troops were attacked in several places.The Russian statement said Ukraine attacked around 0600 GMT near the village of Berdin with two tanks, a mine-clearing vehicle and 12 armored combat vehicles with paratroops. “Artillery and aviation of the North group of (Russian) forces defeated the assault group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” it added.Reports from Russia’s widely read war bloggers, who support Moscow’s war in Ukraine but have often reported critically on failings and setbacks, indicated that the Ukrainian assault had put Russian forces at least temporarily on the defensive. “Despite strong pressure from the enemy, our units are heroically holding the line,” the Operativnye Svodki (Operational Reports) channel said in the first hours after the attac
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