“According to Kovalenko, this was a surprise for the Russian troops”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“The Russians are very worried in Kurshchyna, because they were attacked in several directions and this came as a surprise to them. The defense forces are working,” the post reads.
According to Russian sources, Ukrainian forces are advancing towards the village of Velike Soldatske from the city of Suja. However, there is no official information yet.
The day before, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Russia lost up to a battalion of North Korean soldiers in the area of the village of Makhnovka in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.
As the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi stated on January 1, the total losses of the Russian army in Kurshchyna totaled more than 38,000 personnel and more than a thousand pieces of equipment.
The armed forces of Ukraine began an operation in the Kursk region on August 6, occupying more than 1,000 square kilometers. Then the Russian army, with the help of North Korean troops, was able to recapture part of the territory.
In November, the Reuters agency, citing a high-ranking Ukrainian military source who works in the General Staff of Ukraine, reported that due to Russian counterattacks, Ukraine had lost more than 40% of the territory in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, which it captured during hostilities in August. According to the source, Russia has deployed about 59,000 troops in the Kursk region.