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The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Tuesday that about 300 Ukrainian troops penetrated the border on a sabotage mission into Russia’s Kursk region and engaged Russian forces near the border towns of Nikolaevo-Darino and Oleshnya.Earlier in the day, Aleksey Smirnov, the governor of Russia’s Kursk Oblast, claimed that Russian border guards “prevented a border breakthrough” in the Sudzhansky and Korenevsky districts.
“Russian military commanders lie about controlling the situation in Kursk Oblast,” he wrote in the Telegram post.Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the Russian military’s chief of staff, reportedly informed President Vladimir Putin by video uplink on Wednesday that up to a thousand Ukrainian soldiers “went on the offensive” in Kursk. The Ukrainians were reportedly equipped with several dozen tanks and armored personnel carriers.
The Ukrainians countered by claiming they have seized control of the Sudzha natural gas hub in Kursk – a significant strategic target, since it is the only way for Russia to pump natural gas to customers in the European Union.
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