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In the Kursk region, in the area of responsibility of the 80th Halician Separate Air Assault Brigade, about 3,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and more than 150 captured in four months. As of today, Ukrainian defenders are managing to hold the positions they occupied earlier.
According to Ukrinform, this was reported on television by Petro Haydashchuk, senior officer of the communication department of the 80th Halician separate air assault brigade.
“We have already had exactly four months of the Kursk operation. Since August 6, the 80th Halician Air Assault Brigade together with other units of the Defense Forces have broken through the enemy’s defense line in Kursk region, we managed to advance to a large territory and take control of a significant number of settlements. In four months, we managed to kill about three thousand enemy personnel and take more than one and a half hundred prisoners, replenishing our exchange fund, and these numbers are increasing. Now we are holding our positions, the enemy is trying to regain them, trying to storm the positions of our paratroopers to no avail, using artillery, armored vehicles, drones and almost all of its powerful military units that it has pulled from other parts of the front to storm our positions in the Kursk region,” said Haydashchuk, adding that Ukrainian defenders are managing to hold the positions they occupied earlier.
Answering the question whether North Korean troops are being used in the Kursk region, he noted that he had not encountered them.
“We have heard about their appearance, but they are not there, we have not met them and have not encountered them in battle. Instead, we are facing Russian infantry, motorized rifle units, airborne assault units and marine units. These are all Russian units, where there are no North Koreans,” the spokesman said.
Commenting on the issue of interaction with the local population of Kursk region, Haydashchuk said that the Defense Forces provide humanitarian aid to all those who stayed and did not leave.
“Many civilians stayed behind. Most of them are elderly people who could not leave. People who had transportation and wanted to leave did so in the first days of the operation. However, the people who stayed there are being provided with comprehensive humanitarian assistance. Our people treat these people very politely and accordingly, the civilian population also treats our military well,” said the spokesman.
He also noted that many civilians in the Kursk region know and speak Ukrainian.
As Ukrinform reported earlier, soldiers of the 80th separate airborne assault Halician brigade of the Airborne Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine captured more than 50 Russian soldiers in the Kursk region on August 6.
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