Abstract of Main News about Ukranian Attack on Kursk Region
By Carlo Domenico Cristofori
Abstract of Main News about Ukranian Attack on Kursk Region
Russian forces continue to inflict heavy losses on Ukrainian troops that crossed the border into Kursk Region earlier this week, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Friday, providing an estimate of Kiev’s casualties in the incursion.
According to the ministry, Ukraine has lost up to 945 soldiers as well as 102 armored vehicles, including 12 tanks and 17 armored personnel carriers. The figures include more than 280 troops and 27 armored vehicles destroyed over the past 24 hours in areas bordering Kursk Region, Moscow added.
The Russian military said on Wednesday that the advance of the invading force had been halted but that Ukrainians remained in some areas in the district. “The situation in the Kursk region was classified as a federal emergency,” an Emergencies Ministry statement said on Friday.
The town of Sudzha in the Kursk Region is not under the control of Ukrainian forces contrary to rumors in a number of Telegram channels, the town’s mayor Vitaly Slashchev has told TASS. “Evacuation is underway. Sudzha is ours. This comment says it all,” Slashchev said when asked about the authenticity of photos of Ukrainian soldiers allegedly in front of a store and an organization in Sudzha.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that it was building up forces, who were engaged in active hostilities against Ukrainian formations in the Sudzha district of the Kursk Region, by sending tanks and other heavy tracked military equipment there.
“The columns marching to the areas of the tasks include the BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher systems, towed artillery guns, tanks transported on trawls, heavy tracked vehicles, Ural and KamAZ vehicles,” the ministry said in a statement.
Putin: “A Large-scale provocation”. Dangers at the Nuclear Plant
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the attack as a “large-scale provocation,” and has accused Kiev of conducting “indiscriminate strikes” on civilians, residential buildings, and ambulances. Multiple videos circulating online in the past two days appear to show Ukrainian troops firing on civilian cars.
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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi has called for “maximum restraint” amid the situation in Russia’s borderline Kursk Region, where the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is located, to avoid a nuclear accident.
“On August 8, fragments and remnants – presumably, pieces of intercepted rockets – were discovered at the plant, including in the radioactive waste processing area. So far, there’s been no direct shelling of the town of Kurchatov, NPP or energy infrastructure facilities. However, the situation remains tense,” the Russia’s Permanent Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna said on its Telegram channel.
The Ukrainian army’s attack on the Kursk Region has called into question not only the peace resolution of the conflict, but also the future development of Ukraine itself, Wang Wen, the Executive Dean of the Chongyang Institute of Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, has told TASS.
“This offensive is an extremely dangerous and aggressive military operation by Ukraine. It can never result in Ukraine’s positive development. It is also not conducive to a peace resolution of the current Russia-Ukraine conflict. It is more likely that it will lead to a more acute confrontation at a time when the situation was expected to ease,” the expert said.
In his opinion, such dangerous actions by Ukraine may also be related to the expected termination of assistance from the United States in case Donald Trump wins the presidential election. To prevent the United States from stopping military aid, Ukraine will further escalate the tensions in the runup to the US election and even hopes to draw the United States into the conflict, thus achieving its aim of joining NATO and protecting national interests,” Wang believes.
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Zakharova: “A NeoNazi Barbaric Attack”
The Kiev regime is attacking the Kursk Region in a bid to show a semblance of activity amid constant failures of its forces in the area of the conflict, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
“With their barbaric attack in the Kursk Region, Ukrainian Banderites tried to sow panic among residents of the region and demonstrate at least some semblance of activity amid constant failures of the Ukrainian forces in the conflict area.Obviously, expectations by neo-Nazis failed to come true there as well,” she said.
She said that overnight into August 6, Ukrainian fighters struck the town of Sudzha in the Kursk Region, and from August 6-7, “Ukrainian neo-Nazis carried out a massive terrorist attack on the Kursk Region, engaging significant infantry forces and heavy armored vehicles.” The Russian armed forces, according to Zakharova, “gave a decisive pushback to the enemy, who suffered significant losses.”
Military group named after Nazi battalion involved in Kursk incursion
According to RT, one of Kiev’s battalions involved in the cross-border attack on Russia’s Kursk Region shares its name with a Nazi special operations unit that was active in Eastern Europe during World War II, Ukrainian news website Focus has reported. The Nachtigall Battalion was under the command of the German military intelligence service, the Abwehr, between 1941 and 1945. It was mainly comprised of members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) and was commanded by right-wing icon, Roman Shukhevych, who is still revered as a hero in Kiev.
Together with the Roland Battalion, it formed the so-called Ukrainian Legion, which participated in the invasion of the Soviet Union by Adolf Hitler’s forces. Some historians believe that members of the Nachtigall Battalion took part in the pogroms in Lviv in June and July 1941, which resulted in the deaths of up to 20,000 Jews. In the fall of 1941, the Ukrainian Legion was reorganized into the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201, which had been used by the Nazis to fight partisans in Belarus and carry out a genocide against the local Jewish population.
Focus reported on Thursday that a Ukrainian military unit also called the Nachtigall Battalion had taken a group of Russian troops prisoner at the Sudzha border crossing between Russia and Ukraine. The formation is part of the 14th separate air force regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to the outlet.
Five Killed, Dozens Injured by 75 Ukrainian Drones
At least five residents of the Kursk Region have been killed as a result of Ukrainian artillery bombardments and UAV strikes. According to the latest data, more than 60 people, including nine children, were injured; 55 of the injured are in hospitals; 12 of them are in serious condition.
A total of 75 Ukrainian drones were destroyed overnight over Russian territory, most of them in the Belgorod and Lipetsk regions, according to the Defence Ministry. A state of emergency was declared in the region as efforts continue to clean up the aftermath of the attack in the Lipetsk municipality. Governor Igor Artamonov has already said that the situation is now stable,
According to the latest reports, nine people were injured in the drone attack. A power infrastructure facility was damaged. The aftermath has been cleared, with electricity being supplied from reserve generators. A fire occurred at a military airfield in the Lipetsk Region, the Main Department of the Emergencies Ministry for the region said on its website
Ukraine’s attacks have caused numerous civilian casualties. The deadliest incident of the kind to date occurred in late December 2023, when a Ukrainian attack claimed the lives of 25 people and left more than 100 wounded in the city of Belgorod.
Moscow have repeatedly accused Kiev of using Western-supplied arms to “indiscriminately” fire at civilians. Moscow has repeatedly warned that the delivery of weapons and other military aid to Kiev makes Western countries de facto direct participants to the conflict.
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