Ukrainian forces on Friday fired rockets at the city of Rylsk in the Kursk Oblast, Russia. “There are dead and wounded,” said the Investigative Committee of Russia. However, he did not provide the number of victims. According to the authorities of this region, the Ukrainians used American HIMARS missiles.
Information about the victims was provided by the Russian Mash channel on Telegram, quoted by Reuters. The information provided there shows that seven people died in the attack, including one child. The acting governor of the Kursk Oblast, Alexei Smirnov, announced that Ukrainian forces used HIMARS launchers provided by the US.
The Investigative Committee of Russia reported: “Fighters of the Ukrainian army (…) launched an attack on the city of Rylsk in the Kursk region, where there were civilians.”
Rylsk, Kursk Oblast, Russia
Russian forces are conducting an offensive in the region, trying to retake the areas occupied by Ukrainian troops in the summer.
Ukrainian military operations in the Kursk Oblast in Russia
Ukrainians still control part of the areas of the Kursk Oblast that they occupied in the attack that began on August 6. Rylsk is a small town inhabited by approximately 16,000 inhabitants.
Thursday during the annual news conference Vladimir Putin he said that Russia would regain these areas, but refused to answer the question of how long such an operation would take.
North Korean soldiers on the side of Russia in the war with Ukraine
On Tuesday, the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Oleksandr Syrski, said that Russian forces were intensifying attacks in the Kursk Oblast. He added that Russia is “actively engaged” there North Korean soldiers and they suffer losses.
In early November, the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky informed that there are 11,000 people in this district. soldiers from North Korea.
Ukrainian forces launched an offensive operation in the Kursk Oblast in Russia this summer in order to draw enemy troops away from Donbas. At the end of August, Ukraine controlled 1,250 square kilometers in this oblast. However, from September, Ukrainian forces began to lose ground as a result of the Russian army's counteroffensive. In November, sources in the Ukrainian army reported that only about 800 square kilometers of Russian territory were currently under its control.
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