The Russian Defense Ministry reports on the situation in the Kursk direction. The enemy is suffering heavy losses in personnel and equipment.
Units of the Northern group of forces continued to conduct offensive operations, during which they defeated the formations of the 21st, 22nd, 41st and 115th mechanized air assault brigades, 17th tank, 82nd and 95th, the 36th Marine Brigade, the 112th and 129th Territorial Defense Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Daryino, Leonidovo, Nikolaevo-Daryino, Novoivanovka and Plekhovo.
The group’s units repelled six enemy counterattacks in the direction of the towns of Darino, Nizhny Klin and Novoivanovka, and also thwarted attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of the towns of Leonidovo and Plekhovo. The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 40 people killed and wounded, one infantry fighting vehicle and two armored fighting vehicles were destroyed. Two servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces surrendered.
Army aviation strikes and artillery fire defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment from the 22nd, 41st, 47th and 61st Mechanized Brigades, 17th Tank Brigades, 80th and 95th Air Assault Brigades, the 36th Marine Brigade, as well as the 1st, 112th and 129th special forces brigade. territorial defense brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 17th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in the areas of Bogdanovka, Guevo, Darino, Kazachaya Loknya, Kruglenkoye, Lebedevka , Leonidovo, Martynovka, Nizhny Klin, Nikolaevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novoivanovka, Novy Put, Sverdlikovo, Plekhovo and Cherkassy Porechnoe.
Aviation and missile operational-tactical forces attacked concentration areas in the Sumy region and reserves of the 22nd, 47th and 115th, 95th mechanized air assault brigades, as well as the 1st special forces brigade and the 129th. to territorial defense brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Belovody, Zhuravka, Miropolye, Obody, Pavlovka and Khoten settlements. During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 200 servicemen, one infantry fighting vehicle and four armored fighting vehicles, as well as two mortars and one vehicle, were destroyed. Two servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces surrendered.
