Russian military claims they repelled deadly incursion by Ukrainian forces on Kursk border region
Alexei Smirnov, acting governor of the Kursk region said Russian soldiers had repelled the Ukraininan attack on Sudzha and three Russian civilian had been killed.Alexei Smirnov, acting governor of the Kursk region said Russian soldiers had repelled the Ukraininan attack on Sudzha and three Russian civilian had been killed.launched a cross-border attack into a hitherto quiet part of the front on Tuesday, with reports of fighting at a town as deep as 10km inside Russia.
Fighting took place throughout the day between the border villages of Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya in the Kursk region, and as far inside Russia as the fringes of Sudzha, 10km from the front line – where two strikes on Russian trailers loaded with tanks weresaid it had repelled the incursion, reports from Russian military bloggers and imagery on social media indicated that the Ukrainian attack was substantial, though it was unclear how far it could be sustained.
That contrasted with the initial statement from Moscow’s defence ministry, which claimed to have repelled the attack. “After suffering losses, the Ukrainian sabotage group retreated to its territory, while some of the fighters tried to gain a foothold directly on the territory adjacent to the state border, where they were blocked by Russian army units,” the ministry said in a statement.
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