Alexei Smirnov, the acting governor of Russia’s Kursk Oblast, and several Russian military bloggers have reported that fighting is continuing in the border areas of the Sudzha and Korenevoy districts of Kursk Oblast. This information, however, contradicts reports from the Russian Ministry of Defence and the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which say they have repelled the raids.
Source: Institute for the Study of War (ISW)
Details: Russian sources claimed that on 6 August, Ukrainian forces executed a series of incursions into Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Both the Russian Ministry of Defence and the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on the same day that Russian border troops, along with FSB officers, repelled several Ukrainian raids, which involved a battalion-sized force of tanks and armoured vehicles.
Russian military bloggers further claimed that Ukrainian forces had attacked from two different directions: one from the Sudzha checkpoint and another from the village of Nove in Ukraine’s Sumy Oblast, moving towards Nikolayevo-Darino in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. The Russian Ministry of Defence asserted that Russian reserve units had responded to the Ukrainian assaults, and an insider source indicated that elements of the Chechen special forces unit, Akhmat, were also involved in repelling the attacks. However, ISW could not corroborate these assertions.
The Russian Ministry of Defence reported the destruction of 16 Ukrainian armoured vehicles during the raids and mentioned that Russian forces had launched retaliatory strikes on Ukrainian positions in Sumy Oblast. Russian bloggers circulated videos claiming to show the aftermath of the alleged Ukrainian incursions, although much of the depicted damage appeared to result from routine Ukrainian shelling, rather than ground assaults in the area.
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