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The Ukrainian defence forces are holding back the Russian offensive and have repelled 24 attacks, with 5 engagements still ongoing. The enemy losses on this front are being confirmed. The enemy also launched three airstrikes with rockets on Oleksandropil,
Seven combat engagements are over and two more are ongoing,
Three more combat engagements are currently underway,
the General Staff reported Russian forces have redeployed additional forces to Kursk Oblast since the first week of the Ukrainian incursion and have likely redeployed more than 5,000 personnel to Kursk Oblast overall,
The initial force in the Kursk area was FSB Border Troops, Akhmat fighters from Chechnya, and local ground forces units taken from the Moscow or Leningrad military districts. Now, they have brought in additional forces subordinate from the Leningrad and Moscow military districts – some of them are conscripts,
said Dara Massicot, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace I feel sorry for the boys – no doubt. But we used to fight with them before,
You promised that they [the conscripts] wouldn’t be involved in military actions!!!! We believe in you. We are patriots!!!
He worries that Putin may not appreciate the idea that his vision of a ‘sanitary zone’– the goal of the Kharkiv offensive, according to Putin – has come to an end,
Conscripts are being forced to sign contracts, and their documents are being falsified to make it appear as though they have been serving for a long time,
said Chuvilayev from Go by the Forest We know for sure that 250 people were transferred from one military unit in the Leningrad region to Kursk. We’ve received requests regarding conscripts from at least 10 units – so it’s fair to say around 1,000 people have been moved,
Putin hopes to contain the Ukrainian advance with mostly conscript forces. But can they push back the Ukrainian troops? I doubt it,
said Yury Fedorov, Russian military analyst Plugging the gap in Kursk clearly isn’t easy for Russia,
said Pavel Luzin, a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis Elite, heavily armed brigades against our children with rifles. Every day, more parents find their children in videos and photos among the captured,
another mother, Irina, posted