Ukrainian Invasion of Russian City of Kursk Repulsed
At least 600 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Kursk region after a Ukrainian attack. Putin: new provocation and indiscriminate attacks on civilians from Kiev
A large-scale battle took place in the early morning of August 7 along the state border between Russia’s Kursk region and Ukraine’s Sumy region. At least 300 Ukrainian soldiers supported by about twenty armored vehicles attacked Russian territory in the direction of the city of Kursk, one of the most important industrial centers in southwestern Russia.
To force the attackers to flee, the Russian military leadership had to engage numerous helicopters and fighter-bombers, which destroyed almost all of the enemy’s armored vehicles as they attempted to retreat towards some settlements in the Sumy region.
And while Russia’s Kursk region remains on high alert following an attempted invasion by Ukrainian armed forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the failed Ukrainian operation, calling by the Russian leader “yet another large-scale provocation by the criminal Kiev regime.” During a meeting on Wednesday, August 7, with members of the Security Council (pictured), Putin said that “the criminal regime in Kiev has carried out another large-scale provocation. It is firing indiscriminately with various weapons, including missiles, at civilian buildings, residential houses, and ambulances.”
According to Andrei Belostotsky, deputy governor of Kursk Region, about 600 residents were evacuated from their homes after the attempted invasion by Ukrainian forces. All IDPs were placed in a reception center. “Now there are only 600 people, we have about 2500 places in the Temporary Reception Center, so we are ready to transfer all the residents of Korenevsky and Sudjansky districts who want to move,” Belostotsky told reporters.
Putin promised all necessary assistance to the Russian territories affected by the attack and instructed Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov to coordinate work aimed at normalizing life in Kursk and surrounding regions as soon as possible. “I ask the members of the government to do this immediately. I ask First Vice-President of the Russian government Denis Manturov to coordinate this work at the first stage,” Putin said during an extraordinary meeting of the National Security Council following the attempted incursion by Ukrainian forces into Russia’s Kursk region.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Ukrainian President Zelensky sent his compatriots into the “meat grinder” of Kursk in order to “quietly” extend mobilization in the country for another 3 months and thus stay in office. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, commenting on the attempted invasion of the AFU yesterday on the territory of the Russian Kursk region. “Zelensky sent Ukrainian citizens into the Kursk meat grinder to silently prolong the deadly Ukrainian mobilization for another 3 months. Today he signed a law about it,” Zakharova wrote in Telegram.
