RT reported that the Russian Defense Ministry said in its latest report on October 6 that the total number of Ukrainian casualties in the attack on Russia's Kursk province since it began (August 6, 2024) has exceeded 20,800.
The Russian army continued to counterattack and prevented many other Ukrainian units from entering the area.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian army has lost about 200 soldiers in the past 24 hours. Some Ukrainian military equipment was also destroyed, including an artillery system, three mortars and two vehicles, while a Ukrainian soldier surrendered.
The Russian Defense Ministry released a video of a Ka-52M helicopter attacking Ukrainian tanks and soldiers in the Kursk border area. A forward air controller reported that enemy tanks and soldiers were destroyed.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, since the beginning of the offensive in Kursk province, the total number of Ukrainian soldiers killed in fighting in the Russian border area has exceeded 20,800. Kiev has also lost more than 130 tanks, 66 infantry fighting vehicles and nearly 100 armored personnel carriers in the operation, according to Russian military estimates.
In the past 24 hours, Russian forces have also blocked four Ukrainian counterattacks in the area and two attempts to penetrate Russian territory.
Ukrainian officials say the main goal of the attack is to change public opinion in Russia and gain a better position for the final peace talks with Moscow.
The Ukrainian army made some initial advances in early August but was quickly restrained. The Russian military has since gradually pushed the enemy out of the area and recaptured more than a dozen settlements.
Moscow has said it is not ruled out the possibility of negotiations with Kiev, but that could only begin after all Ukrainian troops leave Russian territory.
Earlier this week, head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Aleksandr Bortnikov said that Ukraine's Kursk "raize" had failed, adding that the operation did not distract Moscow from the offensive in Donbass, where the Russian army has continuously won since February.
The Russian military regularly releases videos showing Ukrainian weapons, including heavy armored vehicles supplied by the West, being destroyed when Russian territory was reclaimed.
