The Ukrainian armed forces lose up to 270 soldiers and 16 armored vehicles, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Wednesday.
"In the past day, the losses of the armed forces of Ukraine amounted to 270 military personnel and 16 armored vehicles, including two tanks, an armored personnel carrier Stryker, 13 armored combat vehicles, as well as 10 vehicles and a 122-mm D-30 howitzer," the ministry said, adding that Russian troops repelled six Ukrainian attacks around five settlements in the region.
Ukrainian troops lost up to 2,300 servicemen and 37 tanks during their offensive in the Kursk Region, the ministry added.
The Russian forces prevented Ukrainian break through attempts of enemy mobile groups on armored vehicles in the Kursk Region, and two groups of Ukraine's troops on pickup trucks were eliminated near Martynovka, the MoD added.
Russia took 18 Ukrainian soldiers as prisoners in the Kursk Region, the ministry said.
"Aviation struck the reserves of the armed forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Yunakovka, Sadki, Miropoliye, Khrapovshchina, Mogritsa and Krovnoye of the Sumy region," the ministry concluded.
Two US-made armored vehicles destroyed in Russia – MOD videos
The Russian Defense Ministry has released more videos showing the destruction of Western-donated weapons used by Kiev during its incursion in Kursk Region.
Two US-made Stryker infantry fighting vehicles were hit by Lancet loitering munitions in the Russian border areas where fighting is taking place, according to the ministry.
One of the clips showed a military vehicle hidden in a small forest. A kamikaze drone is shown approaching it and blowing it up, with a cloud of smoke rising to the sky towards the reconnaissance drone filming the engagement.
The second video released hours later shows what appears to be several military vehicles on a rural dirt road. A Lancet then hits one of them, causing a massive explosion. Another vehicle, which was parked meters away, then accelerated away from the obliterated IFV.
The US has long claimed that it was supplying weapons to Ukraine on the condition that they would not be used inside what Washington and Kiev recognize as Russian territory, including Kursk Region.
After the operation was launched last week, the US government said Ukraine was not breaching the agreement. Similar statements of endorsement came from other Western nations.
Moscow has described the Ukraine conflict as a US-initiated proxy war against Russia, in which Ukrainian soldiers serve as ‘cannon fodder’. As of Wednesday, Ukrainian forces have suffered up to 2,300 casualties and have lost scores of armored vehicles and other heavy weapons in Kursk Region, according to Russian military estimates.
Ukraine Wants to Start Talks Using Kurchatov Nuclear Plant Seizure as Ultimatum - Akhmat Head
The Ukrainian Armed Forces went on the offensive on August 6 to seize territory in Russia's Kursk region, but their advance was stopped, said Valery Gerasimov, chief of Russia's General Staff. He stressed that the operation in Kursk will be completed by defeating the enemy and reaching the state border.
Units of the Russian Armed Forces are in the Kursk city of Sudzha, which the enemy does not control but there are daily clashes, commander of the Akhmat special forces Apti Alaudinov told Russian media.
"Today there are units of the Russian Defense Ministry in Sudzha. There is an enemy around and in some parts of the city. There are active clashes there every day. The enemy cannot say that he completely controls Sudzha, because he does not really control it," Alaudinov said.
The major general also said that Kiev is planning on seizing the Kurchatov nuclear power plant on August 11 and use this to start negotiations with Moscow with an ultimatum.
"We received very interesting materials — the whole layout of the operation, which was being prepared, by what forces and what was planned. What can I say: on the 11th [of August] it was necessary to take the nuclear power plant in Kurchatov... [Ukrainian President] Zelensky's blitzkrieg, which was planned with the seizure of the Kurchatov nuclear power plant and already entering negotiations with an ultimatum... failed," Alaudinov explained.
The operation had not been completed, despite all the reserves directed by Kiev in this direction, Alaudinov said.
"Most of the equipment has already been destroyed from what was deployed in the Kursk direction," Alaudinov concluded.
Kiev’s attack on Kursk Region failed to divert Russian forces from Donbass — diplomat
Ukraine's attacks on Russia’s Kursk Region failed to achieve the goal of diverting Russian forces from Donbass and Slobozhanshchina, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.
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"Zelensky's regime has not achieved its main goal - to distract Russian armed forces from Donbass and Slobozhanshchina. At present, Ukrainian militants who havemade an incursion into the territory of the Kursk Region are being decisively pushed back by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation," she said in the statement on the Foreign Ministry's website.
"The criminal regime of the expired [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky continues to demonstrate its true neo-Nazi nature to the whole world," Zakharova said, referring the Ukrainian terrorist attack on the Kursk Region. "As the situation in Donbass is dire for Ukrainian forces, the Ukrainian government ordered a terrorist attack on the territories of the Kursk Region that are close to the border."
"Kiev didn’t make it a secret that they intended this step to improve their own negotiating positions in the future, which Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to the chief of staff at Zelensky's office, stated on August 8 without any hesitation."
"Ukrainian Banderite armed formations indiscriminately fire on civilians as they are trying to evacuate from dangerous areas, shell residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, and engage in outright looting," the spokeswoman went on to say. "Captured Ukrainian fighters admit that they received a command that, if civilians put up any resistance, they should mercilessly shoot everyone on the spot."
Zakharova said all these facts, including the fact that Ukrainian forces are attacking Russian territory with the complicity of their NATO patrons, "fully confirm the relevance of the goals and objectives of the special military operation to de-Nazify and demilitarize Ukraine, which will definitely be accomplished."
She expressed confidence that "the Kiev regime of usurpers, which is rotten from within, is held in place solely with money from the West." She said its collapse is "only a matter of time."
Kursk Region situation
Ukrainian forces started a major attack on the Kursk Region on August 6. Missile attack alerts have been issued repeatedly in the region since then. The attack killed 12 civilians and wounded 121 others, including 10 children, the latest data show. Hospitals have admitted 69 people. Of them, 17 are in serious condition.
More than 120,000 people left the Kursk Region areas close to the Ukrainian border, or were evacuated. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukraine has lost up to 2,030 servicemen, 35 tanks and 31 armored personnel carriers since the start of fighting in the Kursk area.
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