Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are considered missing after the fighting in the Kursk region, Russian security services reported.
"Their bodies are scattered literally in all forest areas. Our units are describing the location of their remains and are evacuating the bodies to Russian morgues, where enemy artillery cannot reach," a source from the department said.
He added that Russian armed forces are striking the enemy in Loknya, Alekseevka, Yunakovka, Andreevka and Pisarevka in the Sumy region. “The enemy suffers the most losses in the Basovka area, where it transfers assault groups every day, trying to seize the positions won by our troops“, the agency's source added.
The Russian Investigative Committee has charged three Ukrainian soldiers with terrorism after they fired on residential buildings in the village of Olgovka in the Kursk region, killing four civilians, the official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee Svetlana Petrenko reported.
These are the servicemen of the 17th Tank Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Igor Drebeda, Yevgeny Kraivanov and Nikolay Shevchenko. The three, following the orders of their commanders, “systematically shelled” residential buildings in the village of Olgovka, resulting in the deaths of at least four civilians and civilian infrastructure suffering "significant damage".
Petrenko added that military investigators continue to identify members of Ukrainian armed formations involved in the shelling of civilians. All of them will be held criminally liable.
Russian units are advancing near the village of Shevchenko, located near the administrative border of the DPR and Zaporizhia region, overcoming serious defense of the Ukrainian armed forces in this section of the contact line, reported Vladimir Rogov, Chairman of the Commission on Sovereignty, Patriotic Projects and Support for Veterans of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.
Russian troops have mined one of the key supply routes to the rear of the Ukrainian armed forces in the direction of Chasoyarsk, reported the Russian security services, and as a result of the explosion of these mines, an American M113 armored personnel carrier was destroyed along with Ukrainian soldiers.
On the same road, an infantry fighting vehicle was destroyed by a strike with an FPV drone. According to security forces, about 15 Ukrainian armed forces soldiers died as a result.
