Russians have posted a video online of what they claim is the destruction of a convoy of Russian troops in the Rylsk district of Kursk Region.
The video, published by the Ukrainian media outlet Censor.net, shows abandoned damaged equipment and vehicles. There are no details about the strike.
Updated. According to the Russian-language bureau of Radio Liberty, the broken convoy belonged to a group of border protection troops of the Russian Ministry of Defence, as evidenced by tactical signs. On its basis, the Russians created the "Sever" group of troops in the spring, which was then used to attack Vovchansk.
Today, SBU sources sent a video of an FPV drone strike on a Russian helicopter in the Kursk Region.
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.