Russian forces have launched a significant counteroffensive against Ukrainian troops who advanced into western Russia last month, retaking some territory, pro-war Russian bloggers and a senior Russian commander said.
On August 6, Ukraine launched the largest foreign attack on Russia since World War II, pushing across the border into the Kursk region with thousands of troops backed by drones and heavy weaponry, including Western-made weapons.
Major General Apti Alaudinov, who commands Chechnya’s Akhmat special forces fighting in Kursk, said Russian troops had gone on the offensive and regained control of about 10 settlements in Kursk, according to Russian news network TASS.
“The situation is good for us. A total of about 10 settlements in the Kursk region have been liberated,” said Alaudinov, who is also deputy head of the military-political department of the Russian Defense Ministry.
Reuters was unable to verify reports from the battlefield due to restrictions on both sides in the war. Russia’s defense ministry said it had defeated Ukrainian units in several villages in Kursk.
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Ukraine says it has captured 100 settlements
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that his forces controlled 100 settlements in the Kursk region across an area of more than 1,300 square kilometers, a figure disputed by Russian sources.
Yuri Podolyaka, a pro-Russian military blogger born in Ukraine, and two other influential bloggers — Rybar and Two Majors — reported that Russian forces have begun a significant counteroffensive at Kursk.
“In the Kursk region, the Russian Army launched counter-offensive actions on the enemy’s western flank, reducing the Ukrainian control zone near the state border,” Two Majors highlighted.
Podolyaka commented that Russian forces took several villages west of the sliver of Russia that Ukraine had conquered, pushing Ukrainian forces east of the Malaya Loknya River, south of Snagost.
Russian forces have also advanced in eastern Ukraine and were fighting in the city center of Ukrainsk in the Donetsk region, according to Russian war bloggers and open-source maps of the war.
This content was originally published in Russia repels Ukrainian troops and retakes areas of Kursk, says commander on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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