Iran Press/Europe: Ukraine on August 6 launched a surprise offensive inside Russian soil into Kursk with thousands of troops supported by drones and heavy weaponry.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said last week that his forces controlled 100 settlements in the Kursk region over an area of more than 1,300 sq km.
Russia said its "Units of the North" forces had reclaimed the settlements over two days in the area around Snagost, on the western flank of the area occupied by Ukraine in its campaign launched on 6 August.
Pro-Russian social media activists said that Russian forces had taken several villages on the west of the sliver of Russia that Ukraine carved out, pushing Ukrainian forces to the east of the Malaya Loknya River south of Snagost.
The first indication of a counteroffensive had come from Chechen special forces commander, Maj Gen Apti Alaudinov, who said six Ukrainian brigades had suffered heavy casualties.
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