MOSCOW, December 6. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces have lost more than 250 troops in the Kursk area over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
In total, the enemy losses have amounted to more than 38,485 troops since the fighting began in the region.
The situation in the borderline Kursk Region remains tense, but it will certainly return to normal and is already nearing resolution, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
TASS has gathered the key news about the unfolding situation.
Operation to neutralize Ukrainian forces
- Units of Russia’s Battlegroup North defeated Ukrainian armed formations in the areas of the settlements of Viktorovka, Lebedevka, Leonidovo, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Nizhny Klin, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Novoivanovka, Plyokhovo, Russkoye Porechnoye and Sverdlikovo.
- Russian operational/tactical and army aircraft, missile forces hit enemy manpower and equipment in the Kursk and Sumy regions.
- The operation to destroy Ukrainian forces continues.
Ukraine’s losses
- Over the day, Ukraine lost more than 250 troops, an infantry fighting vehicle, two armored combat vehicles and five motor vehicles.
- Since the beginning of hostilities in the Kursk Region, Kiev has lost over 38,485 troops, 232 tanks, 169 infantry fighting vehicles, 123 armored personnel carriers, 1,230 armored combat vehicles, 1,092 motor vehicles, 308 artillery pieces, 40 multiple rocket launchers, including 11 HIMARS and six MLRS of US manufacture, 13 anti-aircraft missile launchers, seven transport and loading vehicles, 72 electronic warfare stations, 13 counter-battery radars, four air defense radars, 27 pieces of engineering and other equipment, including 13 counter-obstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine-clearing vehicle, six armored repair and recovery vehicles, as well as a command and staff vehicle.
Kremlin spokesman’s statements
- The situation in the borderline Kursk remains tense, but it will certainly return to normal and is already nearing resolution, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
- The "unusual crisis" situation in the region "requires crisis management."
- "According to the President, [the new acting regional head,] Alexander Khinshtein is the person most effective for [completing] this objective," the Kremlin representative said.