MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces have lost more than 300 troops in the Kursk area over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

In total, the enemy has lost more than 31,390 troops since the fighting began in the region.

Units of Russia’s Battlegroup North have continued their offensive, defeating Ukrainian formations near several settlements in the Kursk Region.

TASS has gathered the key news about the unfolding situation.

Operation to neutralize Ukrainian forces

- Russia’s Battlegroup North repelled six enemy counterattacks towards the settlements of Daryino, Nikolayevo-Daryino and Novoivanovka.

- Units of the battlegroup continued offensive operations, defeating Ukrainian formations in the areas of the settlements of Daryino, Leonidovo, Malaya Loknya, Nikolayevo-Daryino and Novoivanovka.

- Russian tactical aircraft and artillery hit clusters of Ukrainian manpower and equipment in the Kursk Region.

- Operational/tactical aircraft and missile forces hit amassment areas and enemy reserves in the Sumy Region.

- The operation to destroy Ukrainian forces is ongoing.

Ukraine’s losses

- Over the day, the enemy lost more than 300 troops, a tank, an infantry fighting vehicle, two armored personnel carriers, eight armored combat vehicles, three artillery pieces, a mortar and seven motor vehicles. Five Ukrainian servicemen

surrendered as prisoners of war.

- Since the beginning of hostilities in the Kursk Region, Kiev has lost over 31,390 troops, 195 tanks, 127 infantry fighting vehicles, 109 armored personnel carriers, 1,110 armored combat vehicles, 850 motor vehicles, 265 artillery pieces and 40 multiple rocket launchers, including 11 HIMARS and six MLRS of US manufacture.

13 Russian residents found

- Thirteen Russians who had been displaced from the Kursk Region have been found in Ukraine's Sumy Region; negotiations on their possible return are underway, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova told reporters.