The Russian authorities have announced on Thursday the Take from the city of Sudzhathe largest in Kursk in the hands of Ukraine, in the midst of an acceleration of their in its counteroffensive against Ukrainian troops, which launched an incursion in this Russian region in August 2024.
“During offensive operations, units of the North military group released the localities of Sudzha, Podol Y Melovoi“The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Telegram, one day after a visit by the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to the troops deployed in Kursk.
Thus, he has assured that Ukrainian troops have suffered “More than 340 casualties”between dead and injured, in the registered fighting during the last 24 hourswhich raises 67,150 The total of casualties since the beginning of the incursionaccording to Moscow, without kyiv having ruled on his losses in the clashes.
The spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dimitri Peskov, has stressed this Thursday that the army has informed Putin that The “final stage” has already started in the counteroffensive in Kursk with the aim of “releasing the territory of militiamen who have entrenched there,” in the middle of the continued replicues of the Ukrainian troops during the last weeks in the region.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched at the beginning of August 2024 to fight against Ukrainian soldiers in their territory.