Russia won the Battle of Kursk, Forbes reported. However, this does not mean that the Ukrainian defense is collapsing along the entire front. On the contrary - in some places the Ukrainians are counterattacking.
Russia gained an advantage in Kursk and managed to push the Ukrainian troops back into Ukrainian territory. However, this does not at all indicate a general weakness of the Ukrainian front, Forbes writes, UNIAN agency reported.
In other places, the Russian offensives have stopped, and in some places the Ukrainian army has launched a counteroffensive.
The Russians have sent their best forces to the operation in the Kursk region. This left the Russian armies in the south exhausted and gave the Ukrainian brigades the opportunity to attack. In the Seversk region of Donetsk region, Ukrainian forces have destroyed dozens of Russian vehicles.
The operation of the Russian armed forces in Russia's Kursk region to push back Ukrainian troops who launched a cross-border offensive there last year is in its final phase, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today, as quoted by Reuters.
Putin visited Kursk region yesterday for the first time since the surprise Ukrainian invasion in August 2024. "During his visit to one of the command posts in Kursk region, Putin listened to reports from the commander of the "North" group and his deputy, who reported to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief on the progress and the entry into its final phase of the operation to liberate the Kursk region from the militants who had entrenched there," Peskov told TASS, BTA reported.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces will continue to fight in the Kursk region "as long as it is appropriate and necessary," their commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky responded on Facebook, quoted by Reuters. He said that fighting was continuing in and around the city of Sudzha. Ukrainian units were being transferred "to more favorable positions, if necessary," Syrsky said. He stressed that the lives of soldiers were a priority. Russia lost nearly 55,000 servicemen in the Kursk region since the Ukrainian invasion there on August 6. Over 22,000 of them were killed, Ukrinform reports. This data has not been independently verified.