March 14, 2025 (EIRNS)—The pocket still occupied by Ukrainian forces in Kursk gets ever smaller. This morning the Russian Defense Ministry announced the liberation of Goncharovka, immediately to the west of Sudzha. In a further update, the ministry said 29 settlements have been liberated, including one in Ukraine’s Sumy region.
Russian forces will finally clear the Kursk Region of Ukrainian troops in the next few days, Apti Alaudinov, Deputy Chief of the Russian Armed Forces’ Main Military-Political Department and Akhmat Special Forces Commander, predicted yesterday. “I believe that in the next few days, as the supreme commander-in-chief [President Putin] noted, we will fulfill the order and clear the territory of the enemy,” Alaudinov said during a live broadcast on the Rossiya-24 television channel, reported TASS.