Fighting continues on the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Kursk region, our troops are destroying the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the ground and from the air. This is reported by the acting governor of the region Alexei Smirnov.
"In Sudzhansky and There are battles on the border in the Korenevsky district of the Kursk region. Artillery and aviation strike at the enemy. Fighters of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and border guards continue to destroy the enemy. 16 pieces of equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already been smashed," Smirnov writes in his telegram channel.
Earlier, the head of the region said that five more residents of the border areas of the Kursk region were injured as a result of attacks by Ukrainian drones. In the village of Belitsa, Belovsky district, a local resident was injured, not far from the village of Novoivanovka, Sudzhansky district, two local residents traveling in a car were injured, in the village of Politotdelsky, Glushkovsky district, a UAV attacked a car, two were injured.
Before that, Smirnov wrote that one resident of Sudzhi died during a massive shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a Ukrainian copter attacked a minibus near the village of Nekhaevka, Rylsky district, the driver died on the spot, and in the village of Komarovka, Korenevsky district, as a result of a similar attack, the driver of the car also died.
As reported by EADaily, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation issued an official statement regarding the clash on the border of Russia in the Kursk region.
The corresponding text was published today by the press service of the military department.
"Today, from 8.00 a.m. Moscow time, the enemy, after fire training by up to three hundred militants from the 22nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of 11 tanks and more than 20 armored combat vehicles, attacked the positions of the state border protection units of the Russian Federation in the areas of the settlements of Nikolaevo-Darino and Oleshnya, Kursk region, directly adjacent to the Russian-Ukrainian border.", — the report says.