Russian troops “have achieved some minor successes, but this success has now turned into a virtual encirclement for them,” Oleksiy Dmytrachkivsky said.
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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 come to a standstill, according to the spokesman for the Ukrainian regional command, Oleksiy Dmytrachkivsky, on Wednesday, September 18. According to him, the enemy soldiers “tried to attack from the flanks, but they were stopped.” “The situation has stabilized and today everything is under control”he said again.
Ukrainian forces launched a surprise attack in the Russian border region of Kursk in early August, taking Moscow by surprise and seizing hundreds of square kilometers of Russian territory. The Ukrainian spokesman also claimed that “several thousand” Russian civilians were still in the zone occupied by the Ukrainian army.
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 locality. They started fighting for another locality, but that’s all.”