10-08-24, 12:51
|
#325
|
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 50,291
Thanks: 28,737
Thanked 14,428 Times in 10,234 Posts
|
Ukraine Troops Attack Inside Russia as New F-16 Fighter Jets Guard Overhead
Ukraines' New F-16 Fighter Jets SOAR Overhead in First Mission to Defend Against Putins' Attacks
Images of Ukraines' new F-16s and their weapons hint at what US-made fighter jets may start doing against the Russians
Russia Declares Federal-Level Emergency in Kursk Region After Hundreds of Ukrainian Troops Attack
MailOnline 10 AUG 2024
Ukraines' New F-16 Fighter Jets SOAR Overhead
Ukraine ambushes Russian convoy in Kursk as Kremlin declares emergency
Video circulated by Russian military bloggers shows destroyed vehicles on the E38 east-west highway
Ukrainian forces staged an overnight ambush on a Russian convoy 25 miles inside the international border in Russia’s Kursk province, as the Kremlin declared a federal emergency and said it was transferring extra forces to try to snuff out a four-day incursion that has badly damaged its credibility.
A video circulated by Russian military bloggers showed a destroyed convoy, with bodies just visible inside some trucks, on the E38 east-west highway at Oktyabrskoe, a location far deeper inside Russia than any previously confirmed fighting since Ukraine’s forces crossed the border on Tuesday.
Commentators said the attack, reminiscent of Ukrainian attacks on Russian troops besieging Kyiv in the first weeks of the war, demonstrated an effective hit-and-run strategy, but the incursion appeared likely to draw an escalating response from the Kremlin, and its overall outcome remains profoundly uncertain.
Russias’ defence ministry said at lunchtime that it was transferring military reserves to the Kursk region, according to the Interfax news agency, including Grad rockets, artillery and tanks. A video released by Zvezda, official Russian military media, showed a convoy of lorries carrying armoured vehicles down a highway.
Alexei Smirnov, the acting governor of Kursk oblast, said Moscow had declared a state of federal emergency in the morning and he urged residents to “stay calm and keep up your fighting spirit, support each other, do not give in to panic and despondency”. So far 3,000 Russian civilians have been evacuated away from the fighting.
Meanwhile, 14 Ukrainians were reported killed and 43 injured after a Russian missile struck a supermarket during the day in the Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka, about 8 miles from the eastern frontline in Donetsk. “Russian terrorists hit an ordinary supermarket and a post office. There are people under the rubble,” the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said.
Ukraine was able to burst through a lightly defended Kursk border on Tuesday morning with several hundred troops, according to Russia. Ukraine’s forces have engaged in fast-moving manoeuvre warfare, a type of combat that has rarely been seen during the war in Ukraine, which has been largely dominated by fortified trenches and heavy mining, preventing breakthroughs.
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia declares a Federal-Level Emergency in the Kursk region following a large-scale incursion from Ukraine and sent reinforcements there on Friday, four days after hundreds of Ukrainian troops poured across the border in what appeared to be Kyivs’ biggest attack on Russian soil since the war began.
Ukrainians publish video showing soldiers 'in control' of gas facility in Russias' Kursk region
|
|
|