The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published official information on military operations in the Kursk region.
On Saturday, August 31, the Defense Department Press Service published a special military report on this topic.
It is reported that units of the Northern Group of Forces, with the support of military aviation and artillery fire, have repelled six attacks by enemy assault groups in the direction of the villages of Borki, Bakhtinka, Komarovka, Malaya Loknya and Matveevka over the past 24 hours.
“In addition, attempts by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack in the direction of Korenevo and Malaya Loknya were thwarted. Enemy casualties included up to 30 killed and wounded, two armored combat vehicles and two cars were destroyed. One Ukrainian soldier surrendered,” the report says.
Reconnaissance and search operations are also reported to be continuing to destroy enemy sabotage groups in forest areas.
Airstrikes, artillery fire and troop actions were observed to have defeated manpower and equipment build-ups identified during the day by the 21st, 22nd, 61st and 115th Mechanized Brigades, the 82nd Air Assault and the 1004th Security and Support Brigades.
This occurred in the areas of the settlements of Apanasovka, Borki, Byakhovo, Vishnevka, Krasnooktyabrskoye, Kruglenkoye, Lyubimovka, Martynovka, Novoivanovka, Novaya Sorochina, Plekhovo, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Russkoye Porechnoye, Sverdlikovo and Snagost.
In addition, operational-tactical aviation carried out strikes in the Sumy region in areas where personnel and military equipment were concentrated in the reserves of the 21st, 22nd, 41st mechanized, 17th tank, 80th and 95th air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 1st Guards Brigade, as well as the 101st, 103rd, 107th, 119th and 129th Ground Defence Brigades in the Belopolye, Glukhov, Kiyanitsa, Obody, Svessa, Sosnovka, Sumy, Shalimovka, Shalygino and Esman areas.
According to the Ministry of Defense, over the past 24 hours the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk direction amounted to 400 servicemen and 18 armored vehicles, including one tank, three armored personnel carriers and 14 armored combat vehicles, as well as three artillery pieces, three mortars, one electronic warfare station and 7 vehicles.
In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 8,200 servicemen, 76 tanks, 36 infantry fighting vehicles, 67 armored personnel carriers, 521 armored combat vehicles, 242 vehicles, 56 artillery pieces and 16 multiple launch rocket systems, including four HIMARS MLRS and two US-made MLRS, five anti-aircraft missile system installations, 12 electronic warfare stations, one counter-battery radar, one air defense radar, five units of engineering equipment, including two engineering clearance vehicles, and one UR-77 mine clearance installation.
“The operation to destroy the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues,” – the Department of Defense concluded.
