Ukraine on Sunday launched a new counterattack against Russia’s Kursk region, warning Moscow that it is “getting what it deserves.”
After a successful surprise counter-invasion last August, Ukrainian forces resume efforts with a new wave of attacks to repel Russian forces in Kursk as Moscow struggles to retake territory currently occupied by Kiev did.
Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential administration, praised the project, saying, “Good news for the Kursk region. Russia is getting what it deserves.”
Ukraine’s Counter-Disinformation Center confirmed Sunday’s latest attack on Moscow’s military, which recently received reinforcements from North Korean forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry said one of Sunday’s battles took place in the village of Berdin, about 16 miles from the border, and the Kremlin repelled attacks by two Ukrainian military tanks and 12 armored vehicles, according to the state-run TASS news agency. did.
Ukraine and Russia’s claims could not be independently verified.
Pro-Russian military bloggers, who have become an important source of information on front-line fighting, claim that Ukrainian tanks and armored vehicles were also fighting Russian forces in the Suzha district of another city close to the border. .
Colonel Oleksiy Dmitrashkivsky, a spokesman for the military command in Kursk, said Russia was taking border villages “floor by floor, block by block” as it prepares for an all-out offensive against Kiev forces, which have already captured Moscow forces. He accused them of systematic destruction. According to a CNN report, civilians were caught in the crossfire.
“Right now, there are about 2,000 people there,” Dmitrashkivsky said of occupied Russian nationals who have not yet been evacuated due to shelling.
“Around 39 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the air raids and shelling,” he added.
The latest fighting in Kursk comes a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy claimed Russia had lost its own paratroopers and an entire battalion of North Korean soldiers in fighting near the village of Makhnovka, just south of Suzha. It happened to.
The White House estimates that more than 1,000 North Korean soldiers were killed in fighting in the Kursk region in the last week of December alone, representing about 10% of the total number of North Korean troops sent to Russia. There is.
U.S. national security spokesman John Kirby claimed that North Korean forces are being used as expandable infantry, forced into “human sea tactics” to undermine Kiev’s defenses.
