“They tried to attack from the sides, but they were stopped there,” Dmytraškivskyj said. “The situation was stabilized and today everything is under control, they were not successful,” he commented on the Russian efforts on Wednesday.
However, a representative of the Ukrainian army admitted that Moscow had “minor success” during the counter-offensive.
“The Russians entered one of the settlements. They started fighting for another settlement, but that was all,” he added in his statement to AFP. She emphasized that she could not independently verify this claim.
Dmytraškivskyj also said that “several thousand” Russian civilians live in the territory controlled by Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region. Russia has not yet specified how many of its civilians remained in areas controlled by Kiev, only saying that about 130,000 people had fled.
Russian soldiers in the Kursk region
A representative of the Ukrainian forces also stated that Russian strikes in the Kursk region have already killed 23 civilians, saying that they are “dying together with Ukrainian soldiers”. He added that Russian civilians can still move only in part of the area controlled by Kyiv.
On Tuesday, Moscow provided its own interpretation of the events in the Kursk region. “Units of the North Force Group continued offensive operations, during which they defeated the formations of the 22nd, 4th and 115th Mechanized, 17th Tank, 82nd Airborne Assault Brigades and the 1st National Guard Brigade, as well as the 129th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Ljubimovka, Darino, Nikolo-Daryino, Tolstyj Lug and Plechovo settlements,” the Russian Ministry of Defense announced in a regular report on Telegram on Wednesday.
According to him, the Ukrainian army has lost more than 14,600 soldiers in the Kursk region since the beginning of August. Even this data could not be independently verified.
