Air defense equipment (air defense), 32 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the Kursk and Yaroslavl regions of the Russian Federation were shot down.
“During the last night, when the Kyiv regime is trying to make a terrorist attack using unmanned aerial vehicles on objects on the territory of the Russian Federation, 32 aircraft UPCs were intercepted and destroyed by the air defense systems: 26 – above the Kursk region and 6 above the Yaroslavl region” – It follows from the department of the department in the telegram channel.
In the Kursk region, the fifth day is going on fighting. In the region, along with the Bryansk and Belgorod regions, the regime of a counter -terrorism operation was introduced.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called an attack on the Kursk region “large -scale provocation”. “The Kiev regime has undertaken another large -scale provocation, conducts indiscriminate shooting from different types of weapons, including missile, in civilian buildings, residential buildings, ambulance vehicles,” the head of state said at a meeting with government members.
The President of the Russian Federation also held a meeting with the participation of the Secretary of the Security Council of Sergei Shoigu, the Minister of Defense Andrei Belousov, the head of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov. Gerasimov said that “at 5:30 a.m. on August six of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, up to one thousand people went on the offensive with the aim of capturing a section of the territory of the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region”.
The Chief of the General Staff said that the advance of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Russia was “stopped” in the Kursk direction, and the Russian military and border guards “continue to destroy the enemy” in areas adjacent to the Russian-Ukrainian border.
According to Gerasimov, the enemy’s losses were hundreds of people, including those killed, dozens of armored vehicles were destroyed. “The operation will be completed by the defeat of the enemy and access to the state border,” Gerasimov said. The losses of the Russian army are not reported.
It was also previously reported that during the shelling of the Kursk region, four people were killed, 31 people, including six children, received injuries and injuries.
Residents leave the region, but refute the statements of the authorities about centralized evacuation.
The President of Ukraine announced “effective” reports
Earlier, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in the evening video message said that during Thursday, August 8, he received three “productive” reports from the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky.
The statement of the Ukrainian leader was made against the backdrop of the latest events in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. “Designant reports. Exactly those that our state is needed now,” Zelensky noted.