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Ukraine has launched a caller violative successful Russia's Kursk region, the Russian Defence Ministry says.
In a statement, the subject said efforts to destruct the Ukrainian onslaught groups are ongoing. Officials successful Ukraine person besides suggested an cognition is nether way.
Ukraine archetypal launched its incursion into Russia's Kursk portion successful August past year, seizing a ample chunk of territory.
In caller months, Russian forces person made large gains successful the area, pushing the Ukrainians back, but failing to eject them entirely.
In a connection posted connected Telegram connected Sunday, Russia's defence ministry said: "At astir 9am Moscow time, successful bid to halt the violative by the Russian troops successful the Kursk direction, the force launched a counter-attack by an battle detachment consisting of 2 tanks, 1 counter-obstacle vehicle, and 12 armoured warring vehicles."
The caput of Ukraine's statesmanlike office, Andriy Yermak, said determination "was bully quality from Kursk Region" and that Russia was "getting what it deserves".
Ukraine's apical counter-disinformation authoritative Andriy Kovalenko said successful a Telegram station connected Sunday: "The Russians successful Kursk are experiencing large anxiousness due to the fact that they were attacked from respective directions and it came arsenic a astonishment to them."
It's unclear whether the violative is sufficiently large-scale to pb to immoderate important changes connected the frontline.
Kyiv's forces are reportedly suffering from manpower shortages and person been losing crushed successful the eastbound of Ukraine successful caller months, arsenic Russian troops advance.
It comes arsenic the Ukrainian Air Force said Russia launched different drone onslaught connected Ukraine overnight.
It said it had changeable down 61 drones implicit Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, and Khmelnytskyy regions
There were nary nonstop hits, but a fewer houses were damaged successful Kharkiv Region by an intercepted drone, the aerial unit said.
In November, Ukraine reported its troops had engaged successful combat with North Korean troops successful the Kursk region.
The quality of North Korean soldiers was successful effect to a astonishment onslaught launched crossed the borderline by Ukrainian troops successful August, advancing up to 18 miles (30km) into Russian land.
Moscow evacuated astir 200,000 radical from areas on the borderline and President Vladimir Putin condemned the Ukrainian violative arsenic a "major provocation".
After a fortnight, Ukraine's apical commandant claimed to power much than 1,200 sq km of Russian territory and 93 villages.
Some of that territory has been regained by Russia but Ukraine inactive has troops successful the Kursk region.
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