The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ offensive in the Kursk region has slowed down as the former Soviet republic’s army suffers heavy losses, The Economist writes.
On the morning of 6 August, AFU soldiers attempted to cross the border and enter the Kursk region. The Russian Defence Ministry said that about 300 Ukrainian military attacked the positions of Russian troops near the settlements of Oleshnya and Mykolaevo-Daryino.
In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 3,460 servicemen, 50 tanks, 25 infantry fighting vehicles, 45 armoured personnel carriers, 262 armoured combat vehicles, 115 vehicles, five anti-aircraft missile systems, seven multiple rocket launchers, including three HIMARS and one MLRS, 25 field artillery guns, four electronic warfare stations, four units of engineering equipment, including two engineering vehicles, two engineering vehicles, and four units of military equipment. including two engineering demolition vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearance unit.
‘Ukrainian soldiers in Russian territory say they are already beginning to notice a different level of resistance. Casualties are rising,’ states The Economist.
The material notes that the first time the Ukrainian troops accompanied at least some success, but the effect of surprise has passed, and the soldiers of the AFU is becoming increasingly difficult to fight.
We will remind, earlier Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Western ideas of the new world order hypocrisy. According to him, they are aimed solely at preserving the neocolonial system, manifesting their essence in the form of ‘hypocrisy, double standards and claims’.