The Russian Armed Forces have eliminated more than 200 AFU fighters, an armoured personnel carrier, an armoured combat vehicle, an electronic warfare station in the Kursk border region only in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defence Ministry said. In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 43,510 servicemen, 253 tanks and 194 infantry fighting vehicles, the ministry added.
‘Over the day, the losses of the AFU amounted to more than 200 servicemen, destroyed an armoured personnel carrier, armoured fighting vehicle, electronic warfare station and five vehicles,’ the Russian defence ministry said in a statement.
In addition, the ‘North’ group defeated formations of 14 Ukrainian brigades in areas of 13 settlements in the Kursk region.
‘The units of the ‘North’ group of troops in the course of offensive actions defeated the formations of heavy mechanised, five mechanised, three airborne assault brigades, Marine brigade and four brigades of the AFU territorial defence in the areas of the settlements of Alexandria, Viktorovka, Zaoleshenka, Kubatkin, Lebedevka, Leonidovo, Martynovka, Nikolayevka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Sverdlikovo, Cherkasskaya Konopelka,’ the Russian Defence Ministry said.
In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 43,510 servicemen, 253 tanks, 194 infantry fighting vehicles, 136 armoured personnel carriers, 1,316 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,179 vehicles, 324 artillery pieces, 42 multiple rocket launchers, including 11 HIMARS and six US-made MLRS, 13 launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems, seven transport and loading vehicles, 80 REB stations, 13 counter-battery radars, four air defence radars, 28 units of engineering and other equipment, including 13 engineering demolition vehicles, one UR-77 demining unit, seven armoured recovery vehicles and a command and control vehicle.
‘The operation to destroy the formations of the AFU continues’, – concluded in the Ministry.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was unable to dislodge the Russian Armed Forces from their positions even if it receives new assistance from the EU and the USA and trains the military in Western countries.
