Sputnik quoted information from the Russian Ministry of National Defense as saying that on October 13, Russian air and artillery strikes defeated the manpower and equipment concentrations of the 22nd, 41st, 47th and 61st mechanized brigades, the 17th tank brigade, the 80th, 82nd and 95th airborne brigades, the 36th marine brigade, the 1st national guard brigade as well as the 112th, 116th and 129th territorial defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the settlements of Gogolevka, Darino, Zaoleshinka, Ivashkovsky, Kruglenkoye, Leonidovo, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Makhnovka, Melovoy, New Path, Nikolaevo-Daryino, Orlovka, Novoivanovka, Nikolaevka, Plekhovo, Sverdlikovo, Tolsty Lug and Cherkasy Porechnoye in the Kursk region of Ukraine. Russia.
Russian air and missile forces also attacked the assembly areas and reserves of 10 Ukrainian brigades in 17 settlements in Ukraine's Sumy Oblast.
Over the past 24 hours, units of the "Northern" group repelled five Ukrainian counterattacks in the direction of the settlements of Zeleny Shlyakh, Nizhny Klin and Pokrovsky, as well as an attempt to cross the Russian border in the direction of the settlement of Novy Put - a separate report on the progress of repelling the Ukrainian attempt to penetrate into the Russian Kursk region reads.
As a result, the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered up to 80 dead and wounded, three tanks, one US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, one armored fighting vehicle and four vehicles were destroyed, the Russian Ministry of National Defense added.
Over the past day, the total losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to more than 300 people, 10 armored vehicles were destroyed, including 7 tanks, including 2 German-made Leopard tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle and two armored fighting vehicles, one British-made AS-90 self-propelled artillery platform, 2 mortars and 11 vehicles. 8 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered - the Russian Ministry of National Defense said.
