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Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, August 14 (Reporter Zhao Bing and Bao Nuomin) The Russian Ministry of Defense issued a notice on the 14th saying that as of now, the Ukrainian army has lost 2,300 people in the Kursk direction. Ukrainian President Zelensky posted on social media on the 14th that the Ukrainian army's military operations in Russia's Kursk Oblast have made progress. The Ukrainian side advanced "one to two kilometers" in different directions in the state that day.

The Russian Ministry of Defense issued a notice on the 14th saying that the Ukrainian army once again used drones and "Tochka-U" missiles to attack the Russian mainland on the night of the 13th. The Russian air defense system destroyed 4 "Tochka-U" missiles and 37 drones in Kursk Oblast, and destroyed varying numbers of drones in Voronezh Oblast, Belgorod Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Volgograd Oblast, Bryansk Oblast, Oryol Oblast, Rostov Oblast and other places.

The Russian Defense Ministry also stated that the Russian military's actions against the Ukrainian army are still continuing. In the past day and night, the Ukrainian army lost 270 people and 16 armored vehicles in the Kursk direction. So far, the Ukrainian army has lost 37 tanks, 32 armored personnel carriers, 15 field artillery, 4 air defense missile systems and other equipment in the Kursk direction.

Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Miroshnik accused Ukraine of launching drone attacks on Russian civilians at a press conference on the 14th, saying that Ukraine had put peace talks on hold for a long time by launching "terrorist attacks" in the direction of Kursk, Russia. Miroshnik said that since the beginning of this year, 124 Russian civilians have been killed and at least 723 others injured by Ukrainian drone attacks. In July this year alone, Ukrainian drone attacks caused at least 186 Russian civilian casualties.