The Russian Defense announced today, Friday, that the Ukrainian army lost on the axis Kursk During the last day, more than 370 soldiers and 18 armored vehicles, including 2 tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles and 12 armored fighting vehicles.
The Russian Defense Ministry said – in a statement reported by the Russia Today website – that units of the “Northern” forces group continued to carry out offensive operations, during which they targeted formations of 8 Ukrainian brigades in the vicinity of 7 border towns and villages in Kursk province.
The statement added that during the past 24 hours, Russian forces thwarted counterattacks by Ukrainian forces towards the towns of Krymyanovo, Lyubimovka and Malaya Lukhnya, which resulted in the deaths and injuries of about 20 Ukrainian soldiers.
He pointed out that with the support of army aviation and artillery fire, 4 Ukrainian attempts to penetrate the Russian border in the direction of the towns of Novy But and Medvezhye were repelled. In these battles, the Ukrainian army lost about 60 soldiers killed and wounded, in addition to two tanks, one of which was a “Leopard”, and 3 Swedish-made CV-90 infantry fighting vehicles and other equipment.
According to the statement, Russian airstrikes and artillery fire targeted concentrations of troops and equipment of nine Ukrainian brigades around 21 towns and villages in the Kursk border regions. Tactical and operational aviation and missile forces also struck areas of concentration and reserves of 11 Ukrainian army brigades around 17 population centers in the territory of the neighboring Ukrainian Sumy region.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the total losses suffered by Ukrainian forces on the Kursk axis since the beginning of the fighting included more than 15,300 soldiers, 124 tanks, 56 infantry fighting vehicles, 93 armored personnel carriers, 780 armored combat vehicles, in addition to other weapons and military equipment.