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The Russian military had liberated the settlement of Veselovka in the Sumy region and neutralized some 190 Ukrainian troops in the direction of Kursk, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on March 29.
“Over the day, the Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 190 servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles, an armored fighting vehicle, eight vehicles, an artillery gun, three mortars, as well as six drone control posts and an ammunition depot,” the ministry said in its daily briefing.
According to the ministry, Russian strikes also hit Ukrainian troops and equipment near the settlements of Gornal, Guyevo and Oleshnya in Kursk, as well as in the settlements of Basovka, Belovody, Varachino, Velikaya Rybitsa, Veselovka, Vladimirovka, Vodolagi, Grunovka, Zhuravka, Zapselye, Kiyanitsa, Loknya, Mogritsa, Novaya Sech, Novonikolayevka, Obody, Sadki, Khrapovshchina, Yunakovka and Yablonovka in Sumy.
Earlier, the ministry said that the Russian military was forging ahead steadily to the state border between Russia and Ukraine in the Kursk direction.
“As part of activity to force the Ukrainian army’s units out of border areas of the Kursk Region, the units of the Russian armed forces are forging ahead steadily to the state border between Russia and Ukraine,” a statement by the ministry reads.
The ministry also announced that the assault units of the Don Cossack air assault regiment based in the settlement of Feodosia had taken an important fortified stronghold of Kiev forces on the borderline of Kursk.
Videos posted to social networks showed some of the Russian strikes that hit Kiev forces in the Kursk direction over the last two days.
Kiev forces invaded Kursk on August 6 of last year, relying mainly on Western-made weapons and foreign mercenaries. The Russian military halted the Ukrainian attack within a few days, and the final offensive to clear the region began earlier this month.
During a March 12 visit to a command post in Kursk Oblast, President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to “fully liberate” the region. On the very next day, the key city of Sudzha was liberated by Russian troops. Currently, Kiev forces are cornered in two small strips of Kursk’s borderline.
In its latest briefing, the Russian MoD said that 70,890 Ukrainian troops had been naturalized since the start of the battle in the region.
The ministry stated that Kiev forces also lost 402 tanks, 329 infantry fighting vehicles, 290 armored personnel carriers, 2,234 armored fighting vehicles, 2,569 motor vehicles, 590 artillery guns, 53 MLRS launchers, including 13 American-made HIMARS and seven MLRS, 26 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles, 120 EW stations, 18 counter-battery warfare radars, ten air defense radars, 56 units of engineering, including 23 counter obstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five bridge launchers, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle, as well as 15 armored recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
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