The Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) reported today that Ukrainian forces numbering up to 300 soldiers, with 30 armored vehicles, attempted to cross into Russia’s Kursk Region. It claimed that half of the enemy armor has been destroyed so far, and stated that the attack took place this morning in the area of Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya, along the Russia-Ukraine border. The Ministry said that Ukrainian forces had launched artillery and drone strikes before attacking with up to 300 troops of the 22nd Mechanized Brigade, supported by 11 tanks and 20 other armored vehicles.
RT quoted the MOD as stating: “Operational-tactical and attack aviation carried out strikes on concentrations of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and equipment in the areas of Basovka, Zhuravka, Khoten, Yunakovka, Belovody, Khrapovshchina in Sumy Region.” As a result of air and artillery strikes, Ukrainian forces lost six tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, four armored personnel carriers, three armored cars and a mine-clearing engineering vehicle.
At least two Russian civilians were killed in Ukrainian artillery and drone strikes, Kursk Acting Governor Aleksey Smirnov said on Telegram. More than a dozen civilians were injured, including four children. Most of the civilian casualties and property damage were in the town of Sudzha, an important junction on the Druzhba oil and gas pipeline from Russia to central Europe.
