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Disclosing the figure for the first time, Ukraine’s top general Oleksandr Syrskyi on Tuesday said they have captured nearly 600 Russian troops and taken control of 100 settlements during its three-week long incursion in the Kursk region read more
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Rescuers at the site of a Russian missile strike in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine on Tuesday. Reuters
Disclosing the figure for the first time, Ukraine’s top general Oleksandr Syrskyi on Tuesday said that they have captured nearly 600 Russian troops and taken control of 100 settlements during its three-week long incursion in the Kursk region.
According to The Guardian report, Syrskyi said that Ukraine forces were repelling Moscow’s counterattack in the area after they were encircled by the enemy.
He said one of the objectives of the Kursk operation was to divert Russian forces from other areas, primarily away from Pokrovsk and Kurakhove.
“The Kursk operation diverted a significant number of its forces,” The Guardian quoted him as saying, noting that Russian troops had been drawn from Ukraine’s south.
“As of now, we can say that around 30,000 servicemen have been sent to the Kursk front and this figure is growing,” added Syrskyi.
In Pokrovsk, a coal mining city with key strategic value as a transport hub that Russia has recently targeted, Syrskyi said Russia is attempting to disrupt Ukraine’s supply lines to the front.
“The situation on the Pokrovsk front is fairly difficult … the enemy is using its advantage in personnel, weapons and military equipment, it is actively using artillery and aviation,” he said.
Meanwhile, after a second night of heavy strikes across the war-battered nation, Russia fired a wave of attack drones and missiles at Ukraine that killed at least five people, authorities said on Tuesday
Within hours of the barrage, Ukraine claimed fresh advances in its surprise assault on Russia’s Kursk border region.
“Crimes against humanity cannot be committed with impunity,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on social media, saying on Tuesday that four people had been killed and 16 wounded. One woman later died in hospital, authorities said.
Monday’s attack was one of Moscow’s largest-ever on Ukraine, prompting Kyiv to push for allies’ permission to use Western-provided weapons to strike deep inside Russia.
Zelensky said in Kyiv that Ukraine had used Western-supplied F-16 fighter jets to counter the Russian barrages and also announced that Ukraine had successfully tested a domestically-produced ballistic missile.
With inputs from agencies
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