At least 31 civilians were killed and 143 wounded in the offensive launched by Ukraine on 6 August in Russia's Kursk region, a new report from the Russian medical services said today.
‘According to the data announced this morning, the deaths of 31 people have been confirmed as a result of attacks by Ukraine's armed forces in the Kursk region,’ said a spokesman for the Russian medical services, quoted by the official Russian news agency TASS.
The same source added that the number of wounded now stands at 143 people, 79 of whom are hospitalized in different medical centers.
In the previous report, released on Tuesday, the Russian authorities had confirmed the deaths of 17 civilians and around 140 wounded since the start of the Ukrainian incursion into the Kursk border region.
According to figures from Kyiv, in more than two weeks of fighting, Ukrainian troops have taken control of around 93 towns and more than 1,200 square kilometers of territory in the Kursk region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that one of the aims of the offensive, which has forced the withdrawal of more than 122,000 people in Russia, is to create a ‘buffer’ zone to prevent attacks on Ukrainian territory from areas bordering Russia.
The Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory, launched on 24 February 2022, has plunged Europe into what is considered to be the most serious security crisis since the Second World War (1939-1945).
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