Russia claims to have eliminated Ukrainian commanders in border area of Kursk Oblast
2024-08-12
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The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on August 10 that the Russian army used Iskander missiles to eliminate 15 commanders of the 22nd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Army in the border area of Kursk Oblast. On the same day, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the Ukrainian army had lost a total of 1,120 people and 140 weapons and equipment in the Kursk direction in recent days, including 22 tanks and 20 armored personnel carriers. The Russian army continues to repel the Ukrainian army's attempts to enter Russian territory.
The Ukrainian army suddenly launched an attack on Kursk Oblast on the 6th. This was the largest cross-border attack launched by Ukraine since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in February 2022.
Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee announced on the 10th that a counter-terrorism action system would be implemented in Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk regions.
Araudinov, commander of the Chechen special forces fighting in the Kursk direction and deputy director of the Main Military and Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, believes that the Ukrainian army's operations in the Kursk direction are led by the NATO command and that there are many French and Polish mercenaries in the Kursk direction.
On August 10, local time, the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement strongly condemning the actions of the Ukrainian armed forces in Russia's Kursk Oblast.
On the 10th, Russian Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that the Ukrainian army's attack on Kursk Oblast was first to demonstrate its military strength in order to obtain new financial and weapons assistance from the West; secondly, it hoped to mobilize Russian troops to relieve the pressure on the Ukrainian army on the main battlefield; thirdly, it was to achieve a short-term propaganda effect.
Medvedev stressed that the Ukrainian offensive on Kursk had serious political and legal consequences. From this moment on, Russia's special military operations should have an open extraterritorial nature.
Editor: Yu Hanjing
Editor: Shen Peilan
