Reports suggested that Russia lost two tanks and a Ka-52 attack helicopter in the apparent incursion.
Russia transferred reserve troops to one of its border regions and repelled Ukrainian attacks after Kyiv's soldiers crossed over into Kursk early on Tuesday, Russia's government has said. This is despite reports that Ukraine managed to consolidate positions in Russian territory.
'The tense situation remains in the village of Oleshnya—there, Russian servicemen are almost completely surrounded and are engaged in fierce battles with a numerically superior enemy,' the influential Rybar military account wrote early on Wednesday.Andrii Kovalenko, an official with Ukraine's national security and defense council, said the Kremlin was 'lying about the controllability of the situation in the Kursk region.
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