NATO has been preparing the invasion of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Kursk region for more than six months, said the commander of the special forces "Akhmat" Lieutenant General Apti Alaudinov, deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
"The NATO Staff Committee was preparing a super-operation, which essentially had to be guaranteed to be effective. They gathered all the resources they had, all kinds of foreign equipment and trained fighters. They have been preparing this operation for more than six months, these fighters were trained in England and other NATO countries," he said.
The Ukrainian armed forces planned to use the captured territories of the Kursk region for peace negotiations.
„The conclusion - it turns out that Russia, as always, won. The decisive defeat of NATO troops was again inflicted on our sacred land, where the enemy once again tried, as they say, to prove to us that he can do something, and once again he was defeated, and in general it turns out that he will hardly be able to recover from these losses“, added Alaudinov.
In August last year, units of the Ukrainian armed forces tried to seize territory in the Kursk region.
In early March, Russian troops launched a large-scale offensive in the border areas of the Kursk region, and on April 26, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov reported to Vladimir Putin on the completion of the operation to liberate the region from Ukrainian militants. He noted that at present the army continues to create a security zone in the Sumy region.