The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday that its forces took back three settlements in the Kursk region amid the ongoing offensive to reclaim the entire region’s territory and drive back Ukrainian forces. Russia’s northern group of troops liberated Viktorovka, Nikolaevka and Staraya Sorochina, the ministry said in a Telegram post. The Russian military defeated Ukrainian heavy mechanized, mechanized, heavy assault, and two airborne assault brigades in the Kursk region, the ministry revealed. “In total, during the fighting in the Kursk area, the enemy lost more than 65580 soldiers, 386 tanks, 298 infantry fighting vehicles, 259 armored personnel carriers, 2,144 armored combat vehicles, 2,341 vehicles, 522 artillery pieces, 52 multiple rocket launchers, including 13 HIMARS and seven US-made MLRS, 25 launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems,” the defense ministry wrote.
Ukraine looses 180 soldiers in Kursk in one day
Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Saturday that Ukraine’s military lost 180 soldiers in the Kursk region during the past day alone. Ukrainian forces also lost “one German-made Marder BMP, two armored personnel carriers, seven armored combat vehicles, 13 vehicles, [and] two German-made Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery units,” the ministry said. Russia recently intensified attacks on Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region as a part of the effort to recapture the territory lost to Kiev’s forces in the incursion last year.