FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian servicemen ride a military vehicle in the Sumy region, near the Russian border on August 10, 2024. Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters
CNN | Published November 12, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Russia has deployed nearly 50,000 troops to Kursk, the southern Russian region where Kyiv launched its surprise counteroffensive in the summer.
Ukraine is fighting 50,000 troops in Russia’s Kursk region, Zelensky says
Ukrainian troops “continue to hold back” the “nearly 50,000-strong enemy group” in Kursk, Zelensky said in a post on Telegram after receiving a briefing from General Oleksandr Syrskyi, the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
Russian forces launched offensives into Kursk in several waves on Monday, a spokesperson for one of Ukraine’s mechanized brigades said Tuesday, though none of them were successful.
“They stormed with a battalion-sized force,” Anastasiia Blyshchyk said, adding that Ukrainian forces destroyed Russian vehicles and equipment, and that “the Russian invaders were eliminated.” It was “a black day for the Russian occupiers,” she said.
Kyiv launched its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region in August, taking by surprise not just Moscow, but also its allies. It said at the time that the operation was necessary, because Russia had been planning to launch a new attack on Ukraine from the region. It said it was aiming to create a “buffer zone” to prevent future cross-border attacks.
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Ukraine said its hard-pressed military was battling 50,000 troops in Russia’s Kursk region to its north, while also scrambling to reinforce two besieged fronts in the east and bracing to meet an infantry assault in the south.
The escalating fighting along a more than 1,000km (620 miles) front line is stretching Ukraine’s already outnumbered troops at a critical moment after Donald Trump won the US election, raising the prospect of possible talks with Russia.
Russia occupies a fifth of Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin has said he wants Kyiv to drop ambitions to join the Nato military alliance and retreat from four Ukrainian regions that he partially holds, something Kyiv says is tantamount to capitulation.
Ukraine’s armed forces commander General Oleksandr Syrskyi said he travelled to the front in Russia’s Kursk region where a surprise Ukrainian incursion carved out a chunk of land in August that President Volodymyr Zelensky said could be used as a bargaining chip.
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