Ukrainian troops continue to advance in the Kursk region, albeit at a slower pace, and the Russians are digging trenches, the Institute for the Study of the war, BTA reported.
The US think tank cited Russian microbloggers as saying that the Armed Forces of Ukraine made little progress in the Russian border region yesterday, as the pace of their operations generally slowed amid continued attempts by the Russian military to stabilize the front there.
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Satellite images show Russian troops have recently dug field fortifications, including trenches and anti-tank ditches, south of key roads in central Kursk Oblast. This suggests that the Russian military command is concerned about a possible rapid Ukrainian mechanized offensive in the northern part of the region, commented the Institute for the Study of War.
Russia will evacuate thousands more people from the Kursk region attacked by Ukraine, Reuters reported. The district authorities have decided to evacuate the residents of the Glush district, said the governor of the Kursk district, Alexey Smirnov. The county directly borders Ukraine and has a population of about 20,000. The evacuation process will be coordinated by the police and other government agencies.
Ukraine said yesterday that its forces had advanced another one to two kilometers in the Kursk region and that its troops had finished clearing the Russian border town of Suja from Moscow's forces. Russian officials said nearly 200,000 people had been evacuated since the attack.
Ukraine said yesterday that its forces had pushed further into Russia's Kursk region in the biggest foreign incursion into Russia since World War II, which US President Joe Biden said presented his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin with a dilemma.
Thousands of Ukrainian servicemen crossed the border in the early hours of August 6 and entered Russia's Kursk region. The Russian president called it a major provocation aimed at giving Kiev a more advantageous position in any future ceasefire negotiations. Ukraine has cut off part of Russia's border region of Kursk, and although Putin has said that the Russian army will push Ukrainian troops out, more than a week of intense fighting has not led to success for Moscow.