On September 29 local time, the Russian Defense Ministry posted a video saying that a Russian Su-34 heavy-duty bomb had destroyed a Ukrainian base and forces in Kursk province.
Sputnik reported that the Ministry of National Defense also said that in the past 24 hours, units of the Northern Group of Forces have repelled 5 Ukrainian counterattacks in the direction of the settlements of Lyubimovka, Kremyanoye and Plekhovo, while blocking attacks in the direction of Olgovka and Pogrebki, resulting in the Ukrainian Armed Forces having up to 60 dead and injured, losing two armored fighting vehicles and a car.
Units of the Northern Group of Forces continued to conduct attacks and defeated the formation of 10 Ukrainian brigades in the area of the settlements of Lyubimovka, Darion, Novy Put, Nikolaevo-Daryino and Plekhovo.
On September 29, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kursk Oblast amounted to more than 400 servicemen, 9 armored vehicles, including 1 tank and 8 armored fighting vehicles, a artillery gun, a Czech-made RM70 Vampire MLRS launcher and 9 cars.
The Russian Defense Ministry stressed that since launching the offensive on Russia's Kursk province in early August, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost more than 18,560 soldiers, 133 tanks, 64 infantry fighting vehicles, 97 armored personnel carriers, 850 armored fighting vehicles and 550 other vehicles.
In addition, Ukraine also lost 146 artillery pieces and 32 MLRS launchers, including 8 HIMARS and one US-made MLRS, 8 launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems, 5 transport vehicles, 38 electronic warfare stations, 9 anti-artillery radars, 2 air defense radars, 18 technical units and other equipment, including 11 technical clearance vehicles, a UB-77 mine clearance system and a repair and recovery vehicle for armored personnel.
