The Russian army has again announced that it has repelled Ukrainian attacks aimed at "deep penetration” in the border Kursk region, today - on the eighth day of the unprecedented advance of Kiev's forces on Russian territory, France Press reported, BTA reported.
The Russian armed forces, supported by aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and artillery, “thwarted the attempts of enemy mobile groups in armored vehicles to penetrate deep into Russian territory” and inflicted heavy losses on the Ukrainians, the statement said.
According to the information of the Russian Ministry of Defense, quoted by TASS, the Ukrainian forces were pushed back near five settlements in the Kursk region.
„The armed forces (of Russia) continue to cover the attempts of the VSU (Armed Forces of Ukraine) to invade the territory of the Russian Federation. The active actions of units of the "North" troop group, the strikes of the army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles and artillery fire thwarted the attempts of enemy mobile groups with armored vehicles to penetrate deep into Russian territory in the regions of Skrilevka, Levshinka, Semenovka, Alekseevsky and Kamishno. ;, the message says.