Video circulated by Russian military bloggers showed a destroyed convoy on the E38 east-west highway
Ukrainian forces staged an overnight ambush on a Russian convoy 25 miles inside the international border in Kursk province, as the Kremlin declared a federal emergency and said it was transferring extra forces to try to snuff out a four day old incursion that has badly damaged its credibility.
Russia’s defence ministry said at lunchtime that it was transferring military reserves to the Kursk region, according to the Interfax news agency, including Grad rockets, artillery and tanks – while a video released by Zvezda, official Russian military media, showed a convoy of lorries carrying armoured vehicles down a highway.
Ukraine was able to burst through a lightly defended Kursk border on Tuesday morning, with several hundred troops, according to Russia. Surpassing the defences, Ukraine’s forces have engaged in fast moving manoeuvre warfare, a type of combat that has rarely been seen during the war in Ukraine, which has been largely dominated by fortified trenches and heavy mining, preventing breakthroughs.
Ukraine’s leaders have largely avoided commenting on the attack, the first time the country’s regular armed forces have broken through the international border, though on Thursday night president Zelenskiy alluded to developments. Kyiv’s likely military hope, Shelest added, is likely to be that “Russian reserves would be moved to make Ukraine’s situation in the east easier,” though she acknowledged there had not been any confirmed movement of troops from the Donbas, where Russia’s larger army has been making slow but steady gains for weeks.
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