Kursk offensive, Donbass advance and massive rear strikes: last week in Russia-Ukraine conflict (VIDEOS)

The Russian military has reported liberation of multiple new settlements in Donbass, while making new gains in Kursk Region

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The Russian forces have also reportedly reached the southern outskirts of Konstantinopol, as well as likely got in full control of Ulakly over the week. On Friday, a video purporting to show Moscow’s forces erecting the country’s flag in the heavily damaged village emerged online. However, the liberation of the village has not been officially announced by the Russian Defense Ministry yet.

Kursk pocket continues to shrink

The Russian military has continued its effort to dislodge Kiev’s forces from the border areas of Kursk Region, which Ukraine invaded in early August last year. The hostility continued in the vicinity of the town of Sudzha, the largest settlement seized by the Ukrainian troops in the area, as well as smaller villages in its vicinity. 

This week, the Russian military liberated the village of Sverdlikovo, located some 10km northwest of Sudzha. The village has been used by Kiev’s military as a logistics hub, with a minor crossborder road running through it. The village was also an important defensive position, given its position on the banks of the Loknya River, a small swampy waterway, which has been a natural obstacle for the advancing Russian forces. 

According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the country’s forces, namely soldiers with the 810th Marines Brigade “crossed the border between the Russian Federation and Ukraine and entered the enemy territory” in Ukraine’s Sumy Region. While the president’s announcement corresponded with the liberation of Sverdlikovo, Putin did not elaborate on where exactly the forces crossed the border. 

The loss of Sverdlikovo further aggravated the situation for the Ukrainian invasion force, given the Kiev-held pocket now remains reliant on a single supply route – a major crossborder road leading to Sudzha. The road got under Russia’s fire control earlier this year when the country’s forces approached the town from the southeast. The Ukrainian military tried to push back Moscow’s troops, launching multiple attacks on the villages of Ulanok and Cherkasskaya Konopelka early in February. The Ukrainian forces sustained heavy casualties during the attacks, failing to make any tangible gains in the area. 

According to the latest estimates by the Russian military estimates, Ukrainian forces suffered extremely heavy losses during the incursion of Kursk. More than 62,200 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and wounded in the area, with more than 370 tanks, 279 infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), 229 armored personnel carriers (APC), and nearly 2,000 other armored vehicles destroyed or captured.

Rear strikes

The Russian military has continued its effort to find and destroy high-value assets in Ukraine’s near rear, targeting amassed troops, staging areas and logistics hubs with various medium-range weaponry, incl;uding ballistic missiles.

On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said it launched a missile strike against a staging point of the 27th Reactive artillery brigade, identified near the village of Boromlya in Ukraine’s Sumy Region. Surveillance drone footage released by the Russian military shows multiple military vehicles poorly concealed in a wooded area. At least two Olkha-M multiple rocket launchers, a Ukrainian system based on the Soviet-era BM-30 Smerch, were identified at the site.

The staging area was targeted by a single ballistic missile, apparently rigged for air burst, and fired by an Iskander-M launcher. While the extent of damage sustained by the hardware was not immediately known, Ukrainian troops were seen evacuating their wounded from the site after the strike, footage suggests.