The Situation in Kursk is Critical: Ukrainian Lightning Advance Continues – Kiev Prepares Three Brigades for the Second Wave of Attack
Russian media estimate that the area of the Kursk region seized by Ukraine in the past 48 hrs is roughly 350 sq km. https://t.co/a7Vt66Cn6j pic.twitter.com/X4ZUlBck2C
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- The Situation in Kursk is Critical: Ukrainian Lightning Advance Continues – Kiev Prepares Three Brigades for the Second Wave of Attack
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Kursk in state of emergency – Ukraine evacuates 6,000 people from Sumy
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The situation in Kursk is extremely critical according to Russian journalists and analysts as the lightning-fast Ukrainian advance continues for a second 24 hours. The Russians officially speak of 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers who managed to advance 20-25 kilometers deep into the Russian territory of Kursk, occupying a series of settlements on an area of 350 km²
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But – this is the most important thing – in Sumy there are an additional 3 Ukrainian Brigades on standby. The entire area will turn into a battlefield. Precisely for this reason, the Ukrainians are starting to evacuate the civilian population from 23 regions of Sumy.
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According to Russian sources, the Ukrainians occupied the settlements:
Gornal’, Guevo, Kurilovka, Oleshnya, Rubanshchina, Honcharivka, Lebedevka, Aleksandriya, Leonidovo, Zelenyi Shlyakh, Tolstyi Lug, Luybimovka, Pokrovskii and Obukhovka.
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According to Rybar, all the weight currently falls on the defense of Korenevo, which is in immediate danger. The Russian Air Force is constantly operating on the Korenevo-Sunja axis. In Sundza, fierce fighting is taking place in the center of the city. The objective goal of the Ukrainians seems to be the withdrawal of Russian forces from Kharkiv and the creation of a Security Zone on the border. It is possible that their goal is even more ambitious…
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Russian channels published a map of alleged advance of Ukrainian forces into Kursk Oblast of Russia so far.
According to it, the Ukrainians were able to move 10km deep into Russian territory and capture a stretch of the R200 road, leading to the town of Sudzha. pic.twitter.com/VSSuU3Hu9v
— Status-6 (Military & Conflict News) (@Archer83Able) August 7, 2024
A column of Ukrainian military equipment with new tactical signs and anti-drone nets on the move somewhere near Russia-Ukraine border in the Kursk direction.
Visible in the video is a T-64BV tank, UR-77 mine-clearing vehicle, IMR-2 combat engineering vehicle, Stryker AFV (?)… pic.twitter.com/J6VALq50l9
— Status-6 (Military & Conflict News) (@Archer83Able) August 7, 2024
A column of 7 US-supplied Stryker combat vehicles in service of the Ukrainian military moving in the direction of Kursk Oblast of Russia on the Russia-Ukraine border, presumably today. pic.twitter.com/XB3tHqi9dP
— Status-6 (Military & Conflict News) (@Archer83Able) August 6, 2024
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