During three days of fighting in the Kursk Oblast, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) took hundreds of russian soldiers hostage.
The adviser to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said this in a comment to The Washington Post on condition of anonymity.
According to him, Ukrainian forces captured about 100 square kilometers of the territory of the Kursk Oblast.
Zelenskyy's advisor also claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine seized the Sudzha gas measuring station, which transits gas to Europe through Ukraine. The fact that this station is under the control of the Ukrainian military was reported on August 7 by Z-public, including the Telegram channel Rybar, which is close to the ministry of defense of the russian federation.
According to the publication's conclusions, which are based on the statements of russian officials and military bloggers, about a thousand Ukrainian soldiers "from elite assault brigades with U.S. and German armored vehicles and tanks" are participating in the offensive in the Kursk Oblast.
The Ukrainian offensive turned out to be "more successful than many officials in Kyiv expected," the newspaper writes. Kyiv is now asking Washington to allow the Armed Forces to use long-range ATACMS missiles to strike airfields used by russian planes to launch retaliatory strikes. This, Kyiv believes, will allow maintaining control over part of the Kursk Oblast.
"This will provide the leverage necessary for negotiations with russia - that's the point," says Zelenskyy's adviser.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the russian mass media write that the AFU, which are conducting an offensive in the Kursk Oblast of the russian federation, allegedly occupied the outskirts of Sudzha and approached Koreneve. The AFU allegedly took control of the Sudzha gas measuring station, through which gas is transited to Europe via Ukraine.
On August 7, analysts of the Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState talked about the first losses of russians in the Kursk Oblast, which they managed to record.
On August 6, the authorities of the Kursk Oblast claimed that "saboteurs" tried to break through the russian border at night, but they were allegedly repulsed.
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