Russia-Ukraine War
Russia-Ukraine War
Russia-Ukraine War
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The aggression of Ukrainian forces in the Russian region, where they made a wonderful raid last summer.
By Marc Santora
Kyiv, Ukraine Reports
The Ukrainian forces have known the offensive in the Kursk region in Russia, Ukrainian and Russian officials said on Sunday, in what will be an effort to locate the initiative when they have problems to frustrate the relentless Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine.
Last summer, Ukraine took about 500 square miles in the Koursk region in a marvelous incursion, but Russia recaptured some of the territory in the following months.
On Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry said Ukrainian forces had launched a large new assault featuring tanks, mine-clearing equipment and at least a dozen armored vehicles. The ministry claimed to have thwarted the attack.
Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the area who were reached by phone declined to discuss continuing operations beyond saying that Ukraine was on the offensive in parts of the Kursk region and that fierce fighting was raging there. The Ukrainian military high command said on Sunday night that there were 42 “combat engagements” in the region over the past 24 hours and that 12 were still happening.
It was not possible to verify the claims by either side independently, and the scope of the Ukrainian assaults remained unclear.
The analysts of the Ukrainian and Western army said that the attacks could simply be an attempt of planned diversion, seeking to force Russian troops to consolidate the defenses there in the hope of weakening them in the lines of the Front in Ukrainian territory.
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