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What to know after Day 931 of Russia-Ukraine war

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RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE

Russian troops reportedly pushing Ukrainians back in Kursk

Russian forces appear to be pushing Ukrainian troops back in a Kiev-controlled area of Russia’s Kursk Region, footage circulating online purports to show. The Russian Defense Ministry has not confirmed that the counteroffensive has begun.

A pro-Russian Telegram channel released on Wednesday clips that it claims show the achievements of the 51st Guard Regiment of the Russian Airborne Troops near the settlement of Snagost.

Kiev deployed thousands of heavily armed troops for its operation on Russian soil. According to the Russian military, Ukrainian casualties have surpassed 10,000 during the month-long incursion.

The longest video was filmed from a drone and shows what appears to be a battle in a rural area involving multiple armored vehicles.

Another one purports to show a group of Ukrainian POWs walking down a road. Some of them are holding their hands behind their heads while others prop up an injured comrade. 

Snagost has been mentioned by the Russian Defense Ministry as a location where fighting against the invading Ukrainian troops has been taking place on a regular basis. It is located roughly 7km southeast of the Seim River, a notable landmark that helps identify the location in the video.

Ukrainian troops targeted bridges over the Seim further to the west, apparently to make the territory under their control easier to defend from Russian ground attacks.

 

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE

Three killed, five injured in Russian attacks on east Ukrainian town

Three women were killed and five other people were injured on Wednesday during Russian attacks on the eastern Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region, prosecutors said.

Russian troops shelled a residential part of the town, some 14 km (nine miles) from the active combat zone, and killed two elderly women, the Prosecutor's General Office said on the Telegram messaging app.

Later Russian forces hit another residential area, probably with a self-propelled multiple rocket launcher, killing a middle-aged woman and injuring five other civilians, it said.

The Donetsk region, which Russian troops partially occupy, regularly comes under Russian shelling and airstrikes.

Moscow denies targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure in its invasion of Ukraine, although thousands of people have been killed in its attacks.

 

RT/Reuters

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