The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published official information on military operations in the Kursk region.
On Saturday, October 5, the press service of the Department of Defense published a special military report on this topic.
It is stated that the units of the Northern group of forces continued their actions to defeat the enemy group that had penetrated the territory of the Kursk region.
Formations of the 22nd, 41st, and 115th Mechanized Brigades, 17th Tank, 95th Airborne Assault Brigades, 1st National Guard Brigade, 36th Marine Brigade, as well as the 103rd and 129th Territorial Defense Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Fighting in the areas of the settlements of Darino, Lyubimovka, Nikolaevo-Daryino, Novy Put and Plekhovo.
In addition, over the past 24 hours, the group’s units repelled two enemy counterattacks in the direction of the settlements of Lyubimovka and Obukhovka, and also prevented enemy attempts to counterattack in the direction of Kamyshevka and Plekhovo.
In addition, with the support of military aviation and artillery fire, two attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to cross the border of the Russian Federation in the direction of the Novy Put settlement were repelled.
“Army aviation strikes and artillery fire defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment from the 22nd, 41st, 61st and 115th Mechanized Brigades, 17th Tank Brigades, 80th and 95th Air Assault Brigades, and the 1st Brigade. of the National Guard, the 36th Marine Brigade, as well as the 103rd, 112th and 129th Territorial Defense Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Bogdanovka, Guevo, Darino areas , Kolmakov, Kubatkin, Kruglenkoye, Lyubimovka, Martynovka, Melovy, Nikolaevo-Daryino, New Path, Orlovka, Plekhovo, Tolsty Lug and Cherkasy Porechnoye, “ – says the report.
It is also reported that operational-tactical aviation and missile forces carried out attacks on assembly areas in the Sumy region.
The attacks were carried out against the reserves of the 21st, 41st, 47th and 115th Mechanized Brigades, the 36th Marine Brigade, the 80th and 95th Airborne Assault Brigades, the 1st Brigade of the National Guard, as well as the 101st and 103rd territorial defense brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Cash.
The targets of the attacks were the areas of the settlements of Belovody, Bondarevshchina, Belaya Bereza, Belokopytovo, Boyaro-Lezhichi, Vodolagi, Katerynivka, Konotop, Miropolye, Mars, Mirlogi, Pavlovka, Obody, Pavlovka, Rechki, Stepanovka, Sumy, Frunzenka , Joten, Shpil and Yampol.
According to the Ministry of Defense, during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 400 servicemen in this sector of the front. In addition, 16 armored vehicles were destroyed, including one tank and 15 armored fighting vehicles, as well as five artillery pieces, including a French-made Caesar self-propelled artillery mount and a Bogdan self-propelled artillery mount, two vehicles, one system electronic warfare station, an engineering clearance vehicle and an armored repair and recovery vehicle. Seventeen soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces surrendered.
In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 20,650 servicemen, 136 tanks, 66 infantry fighting vehicles, 98 armored personnel carriers, 885 armored fighting vehicles, 582 vehicles, 170 artillery pieces and 33 multiple launch launchers. rocket systems, including eight US-made HIMARS and six MLRS, nine anti-aircraft missile system launchers, five transport and cargo vehicles, 44 electronic warfare stations, nine counterbattery radars, three air defense radars, 22 engineering units and other equipment, of which 13 engineering cleaning vehicles, a missile cleaning facility (77), as well as three armored repair and recovery vehicles.
