River of blood in Kursk: Ukrainian invasion force decimated - Over 2,000 dead - 'There will be no mercy' Moscow warns

Komnenos B. (Κομνηνός Β.)
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Russians: "American generals planned the Ukrainian operation"

The grip on the Ukrainian invasion force tightens as the Russian Army's air force, artillery, and drones destroyed over 220 tanks with Kyiv's losses now exceeding 2,000 men.

The situation is gradually beginning to stabilise with Russian forces attempting to cut off and encircle the Ukrainian invasion force.

The upper hand, slowly and steadily, seems to be taken by Russian forces in the areas invaded last week by Ukrainian and Western well-trained commandos.

💬 "There is no stable front line in the Kursk region: the enemy is trying to gain territory in some areas, but Ukrainian troops have been successfully blocked," an official very close to the governor of Russia's Kursk province made known. He added: "The situation remains difficult but manageable and controllable. Individual groups of enemy troops are being destroyed and fighting continues in several areas."

Ukraine has lost up to 420 troops and 55 armored vehicles in the last 24 hours in the Kursk region, according to the Russian defense ministry. The Russian MoD added that Ukraine's total losses in the area amounted to 2030 soldiers, 35 tanks, more than 220 other armored vehicles, and four air defense systems.

Earlier today the commander of the special forces unit "Akhmat", Apty Alaudinov, announced that most of the first echelon of Ukrainian troops and resources that entered Russia's Kursk province last week have been destroyed and the situation is under control.

The Russian army confirmed that it had prevented "[Ukranian] attempts to infiltrate [...] [Russian] mobile armored units" near the Tolpino, Zuravli, and Obchichi Kolodez communities, located 30 kilometers from Ukraine.

According to this source, these advances have been halted, over the last 24 hours, by air force, drone, and artillery strikes and the deployment of reserves of the 'North' group, which has been deployed in the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv.

In addition, the Russian military said it had struck Ukrainian troops with missiles and artillery near the communities of Sunza, Korenevo, Staraya Sorotsitsa, and Borki, as well as prevented an infiltration into the Belovsky region further east.

"The operation was planned by American generals"

At the same time, Russian local officials and analysts are directly denouncing the US for its involvement - according to them - in the invasion of the Ukrainian forces.

💬 "This is an operation planned and prepared by American generals. There are a large number of foreign commandos involved in the operation."

Moreover, as the Ukrainian prisoners of war themselves now openly admit, British, Polish, and French mercenaries are taking part in the operation to invade Russian Kursk.

Chechen commander: The Battle of Kursk will lead Ukraine to collapse

The fight in Russia's Kursk region is a "decisive battle" that will eventually lead to the collapse of Kyiv, claimed Lieutenant General Aπτυ Alaudinov, the commander of the Akhmat Special Forces from the Russian Chechen Republic.

In a video posted on his Telegram channel on Saturday, Alaudinov, who was appointed deputy head of the Main Military Policy Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces in April 2024, said it was "inconceivable" that Russia could be defeated on the battlefield.

The comments were made in connection with Ukraine's incursion into the border region of Kursk, the largest attack on Russian territory since the outbreak of conflict between the neighboring states in February 2022.

💬 "I see no reason to doubt, to believe that we could even lose this battle," he said, calling for more people to join the army."

💬 "I urge you all to [contribute to] this decisive battle, because after this battle, Ukraine will fall, as will NATO, Europe, the US, and all those who support Ukraine," he said, adding that Americans, Poles, English, and French have been seen fighting for Kyiv.

💬 "You have no place ... on our land, and we will do everything to keep you out. Russia is more united than ever. We are a force that no one can stop," he stressed.

In the latest development, a missile strike destroyed a Ukrainian command and control center in Russia's Kursk region, the Defense Ministry in Moscow claimed!

Specifically, in a statement, the ministry said that an Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile system struck a command post of Ukraine's 22nd Separate Mechanized Brigade near the border between the two states.

💬 "As a result, the command staff of the ... brigade, 15 people in total, were wiped out," the statement said, adding that "there will be no mercy."

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