Sumy borders Russia’s Kursk Region, which Kiev’s forces targeted last month in a cross-border incursion. One of the stated goals of the operation was to create a “buffer zone”on Russian soil, Ukraine stated at the time.
The Russian military released a video showing what it described as disguised firing positions of the donated mobile rocket systems near the villages of Osoevka and Glybnoye. There is a location on the road connecting the two settlements located roughly 12 miles from the Russian border that closely resembles the terrain in the clip.
A series of Russian strikes was apparently delivered during nighttime, according to drone footage. Two positions deployed in relative proximity to each other next to a dirt road on the edge of a small forest were hit first, with survivors appearing to rush towards cars parked nearby. The third strike hit the forest itself.
The Russian ministry estimates the strikes destroyed three HIMARS launchers, three support cars, and a single loader vehicle, and killed over 30 troops.
Total Ukrainian casualties in the Kursk Region offensive have surpassed 8,900, the ministry reported in a regular update on Monday. Russian forces have destroyed six HIMARS launchers, two tracked MLRS launchers and dozens of heavy weapons sent by Kiev across the border for the incursion, the report said.
Ukraine’s Kursk gambit failed – Putin
Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region has failed to achieve its intended goal of halting the advance of Moscow’s forces in Donbass, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
He stated that Russia has been making great strides in key areas of Donbass, advancing at a pace that has not been seen in a “long time.”
“The Russian armed forces are taking control of territories not by 200, 300 meters at a time, but by square kilometers,” Putin said.
The president added that Kiev’s provocation in Kursk Region would inevitably fail and that Moscow would “deal with the Ukrainian bandits” who have entered Russian territory with the aim of destabilizing the situation at the border.
After that, Putin suggested, Kiev may come to realize that it needs to resolve the conflict through negotiations, and reiterated that Moscow has never refused to hold such talks.
However, the president noted that the Ukrainian leadership was likely not interested in ending the fighting, given that it would have to hold new presidential elections as soon as martial law in the country was lifted.
“The current authorities are clearly not ready for this, they have little chance of being re-elected,” Putin said. “That is why they are not interested in ending the fighting, that is why they tried to carry out this provocation in Kursk Region, and before when they tried to carry out the same operation in Belgorod Region.”
Meanwhile, Russia will continue to protect its people in Donbass, as well as “our common future, the future of Russia,” the president said, adding that Moscow “cannot allow hostile structures to be created right next to us that hatch aggressive plans against our country and constantly try to destabilize the Russian Federation.”
According to Moscow’s latest estimates, the incursion has proven costly for Kiev’s forces, which have lost more than 7,800 servicemen, 75 tanks, and over 500 armored vehicles since the start of the operation on August 6.
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