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The Russian military’s Sever Group of Forces inflicted heavy losses on several formations of Kiev forces while conducting offensive operations in the Kursk direction, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on October 16.
In its daily briefing, the ministry said that Ukraine’s 22nd, 41st, 47th, 115th mechanized brigades, the 17th Tank Brigade, 82nd, 95th air assault brigades, and the 36th Marine Brigade, as well as the 103rd, and 129th territorial defense brigades took losses near the settlements of Lyubimovka, Malaya Loknya, Novy Put, Novoivanovka, and Plyokhovo.
It also announced that the Sever Group of Forces repelled nine counter-attacks by Kiev forces close to the settlements of Zeleny Shlyakh, Lyubimovka, Nizhny Klin, Novoivanovka, and Plyokhovo.
“As a result, the AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] losses were up to 70 troops killed and wounded, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, seven armored fighting vehicles, and two motor vehicles. Six AFU servicemen surrendered,” the ministry detailed in its briefing.
The ministry also announced that Russian air and artillery strikes hit gatherings of the 22nd, 41st, 61st, 115th mechanized brigades, the 17th Tank Brigade, the 36th Marine Brigade, 82nd and 95th air assault brigades and the 1st National Guard Brigade, as well as the 103rd and 129th territorial defense brigades.
The gatherings were targeted near the settlements of Aleksandria, Gogolevka, Daryino, Zeleny Shlyakh, Kruglenkoye, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Lyubimovka, Martynovka, Makhnovka, Novy Put, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Plyokhovo, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, Staraya Sorochina, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
Other strikes targeted, according to the ministry, the reserves of the 21st, 41st, 47th and 115th mechanized brigades, the 95th Air Assault Brigade and the 1st National Guard Brigade as well as the 101st, 103rd, and 129th territorial defense brigades close to the settlements of Belovody, Volnaya Sloboda, Zhuravka, Katerinovka, Kislaya Dubina, Luzhki, Miropolye, Pavlovka, Sosnovka, Topolya, Esman, and Yunakovka in the Ukrainian region of Kursk, which neighbors Kursk.
“During the day, the AFU losses were more than 350 troops, 21 armored vehicles, including two tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, 16 armored fighting vehicles, five mortars, and seven motor vehicles. Six AFU servicemen surrendered,” the ministry said.
Separately, Russian media released videos showing a part of the Sever Group of Forces offensive operations in Kursk as well as recent strikes that targeted Kiev forces in the same direction.
Kiev forces launched a surprise attack from Sumy into Kursk last August. The Russian military is currently conducting a counter-attack. So far, over a dozen settlements have been liberated.
According to the Russian MoD, since the start of the battle in Kursk Kiev forces have lost 23,550 troops, 160 tanks, 75 infantry fighting vehicles, 100 armored personnel carriers, 934 armored fighting vehicles, 639 motor vehicles, 189 artillery guns, 37 launchers, including nine American-made HIMARS and six MLRS systems, nine air defense systems, five transport-loading vehicles, 48 electronic warfare stations, nine counter-battery radars, three aerial radars, 22 engineering vehicles, including 13 counter obstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle and three armored recovery vehicle.
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onward to the end of the evil rump ukrapper sewer of the anglozionazi empire of shit. z
lol russia killed civilians in syria today😂😂😂
my great grandma joined the afu today 😂😂😂
were these isis or el-kaydah civilians?
israel kills civilians there and elsewhere every day and twice on sunday.
take out the east cost and dc under marshall law
run you fools. kursk was a big mistake. run
but lol russia killed civilians in syria today😂😂😂
eradicate turkey mongrels from syria
we can’t. we’re stuck here.
wow the war profiteers are really happy with this suicide mission🙈useful idiots please run into the missiles, drones, heavy machine gun and howitzer fire ww1 style🤡
and let afu walk right into firing range of tanks and rpg of course🔥🔥🔥
i prefer sodomy by mulatto since taliban no accept my shekels
ukr just prove how easy to take and hold russ territory. now they want the rest and keep pushing the west to agree. one day the west will comply and ukr want to take over nato and the eu countries.
if loosing 20+k people in the battle in 2 months is “easy to take and hold” it just means you have absolutely no considerations for human lives, and their mourning families. let me remind you that all of this is a tragedy, not something we should rejoice of.
hehehe big joke, russ just watching these ukr driving around unhindered and penetrate with attck soldiers. seems not enoigh men and equip in russ. 2 weeks left for target mr p. said kursk must be cleared. seems another russ target is not achieved.