The message of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, published on Telegram on Sunday, says: “At around 9 o’clock in the morning Moscow time, in order to stop the advance of Russian troops in the Kursk direction, the enemy launched a counterattack with an amphibious assault detachment consisting of two tanks, 1 anti-tank vehicle and 12 armored combat vehicles. machines”.
The head of the administration of the President of Ukraine, Andrei Yermak, said that “good news is coming from the Kursk region” and that Russia “is getting what it deserves.”
This was stated by the head of the Ukrainian Department for Combating Disinformation, Andrey Kavalenko Telegram, external message on Sunday: “the Russians in Kursk are very alarmed because they have been attacked from several sides and this has come as a surprise to them.”
It is not yet clear whether the offensive is large enough to lead to significant changes on the front line.
Kiev’s forces have reportedly been short on manpower and have been losing ground in eastern Ukraine in recent months as Russian forces advance.
This came after the Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia launched another drone attack on Ukraine overnight.
It says that 61 drones were shot down over Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytskyi regions.
There were no direct hits, but several houses in the Kharkiv region were damaged by the intercepted drone, the Air Force reported.
