Russian troops “have achieved some minor successes, but this success has now turned into a virtual encirclement for them,” the spokesman for the Ukrainian regional command believes.
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A turning point in the war? The counteroffensive launched by Russia to retake the areas of the Kursk region under Ukrainian control has been stopped, the spokesman for the Ukrainian regional command, Oleksiy Dmytrachkivsky, said on Wednesday, September 18. The Russians “tried to attack from the flanks, but they were stopped, the situation stabilized and today everything is under control”he said.
Ukrainian forces launched a surprise attack in the Russian border region of Kursk in early August, taking Moscow by surprise and seizing several hundred square kilometers and dozens of localities. The spokesman also said that “several thousand” Russian civilians were still in Ukrainian-controlled territory.
Moscow announced in mid-September that it had regained ground by launching a counteroffensive in the region. Russian troops “have had some minor successes, but this success has now turned into a near encirclement for them”estimated Oleksiï Dmytrachkivsky. “The Russians entered one town. They started fighting for another town, but that’s all.”.