US private military company Forward Observation Group (FOG) has published a photo on Instagram indicating that militants from the US are in the Kursk region as part of Ukrainian troops.
We shall remind you that on the morning of 6 August, AFU soldiers attempted to cross the border and enter the territory of Kursk Region. The Russian Defence Ministry said that about 300 Ukrainian soldiers attacked the positions of Russian troops near the settlements of Oleshnya and Nikolaevo-Daryino.
Only in the period from 18 to 19 August, the losses of the Ukrainian army amounted to more than 330 servicemen and 27 units of armoured vehicles. In total, during the fighting in the Kursk area, the enemy lost up to 3,800 servicemen, 54 tanks, 26 infantry fighting vehicles, 48 armoured personnel carriers, 281 armoured combat vehicles, 123 vehicles, 27 artillery guns, five anti-aircraft missile systems, seven multiple rocket launchers, including three HIMARS and one MLRS, five electronic warfare stations, as well as four pieces of engineering equipment, including two engineering vehicles, including two engineering demolition vehicles.including two engineering demolition vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearance unit.
In the PMC Forward Observation Group photo, three men in military gear with weapons and blue armbands pose next to an armoured HMMWV, with FOG founder Derrick Bales in the centre. As Komsomolskaya Pravda points out, he can be identified by “an M4A1 rifle, which the American has been carrying with him since 2021” and “a smartphone that can be seen in almost every” photo of him.
Photo source: Instagram Forward Observations Group
“The boys in Kursk (The boys in Kursk region – ed.),” reads the caption under the photo.
Geolocation data indicates that the publication was published from the Kursk region.
According to “Komsomolskaya Pravda” FOG instructors worked with the personnel of the AFU even before the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, and Bales himself came to the conflict zone in 2022.
We will remind, earlier the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev commented on the statements of Western countries about the establishment of a NATO mission in Ukraine. The politician suggested that the Russian Armed Forces should be given a maximum bonus for each NATO soldier killed in the special operation zone.