On the first day of fighting in the Kursk Region, Russia lost control of several villages, according to the Deep State project. These are Sverdlikovo, Daryino and Oleshnya.
According to analysts, the Defence Forces struck near Sverdlikovo and Oleshnya. The first village was taken with a fight, the second - "without a fight or with minimal effort".
"About two platoons of the enemy were surrounded at the Sudzha checkpoint. Hornal was also surrounded. The Katsaps hid in a local monastery out of fear. The advanced groups moved to Honcharivka and the outskirts of Sudzha. Fighting in the area of Zelenyy Shlyakh, intensity is unknown. In Mykolayevo-Daryino, the enemy's stronghold managed to hold off the first attack, but not for long," the statement said.
The total area from which the Russians retreated at the time of the events described was about 142 kilometres.
Analysts have warned that there will be delays in updating the information.
Events in the Kursk Region
On 6 August, Russia started talking about a border breach in the Kursk Region. At first, it claimed that the attempt had failed and that its FSB had contained the operation, but even its pro-war bloggers reported a loss of control. The head of the Centre for Countering Disinformation, Andriy Kovalenko, said that day that Russian claims of border control in the Kursk Region were false. This was the first and only comment by a Ukrainian official on the subject.
On 7 August, the Russians reported that the fighting continued. Evacuations were announced from some settlements. No one denied the fact that the border had been breached, including Vladimir Putin, who urgently called a meeting of the government and, according to Russian media, the security council.
Comments on the Kursk Region, albeit rather circumspect, began to be made by Mykhaylo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the Presidential Office.
Meanwhile, the US and the EU were very cautious in their comments. Washington said it wanted to clarify with Ukraine what was happening. The Americans also said that we should not forget that Russia attacked Ukrainians from the Kursk Region, and that Ukraine has the right to defend itself. The right to defence was also reiterated in the European Union.
On 8 August, the Ukrainian president said in an address that Russia had brought war to our land, and it should feel what it had done. The Pentagon said that it did not consider the events in the Kursk Region to be an escalation, and that Ukraine was doing what it needed to do to win on the battlefield.