Over 20,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Have Died in the Russian Province of Kursk

A Mi-28NM Russian helicopter in combat in the Kursk Region, Oct. 2024. X/ @Zhy9876510.


October 7, 2024 Hour: 12:30 pm

Since the start of the incursion, the Ukrainian Army has also lost 136 tanks and 98 armored personnel carriers.

On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that the Northern troop grouping destroyed a control center for unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ukrainian Army at the Kursk border.

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In the last 24 hours, Russian soldiers have inflicted around 200 casualties on Ukrainian troops operating in the occupied areas of that Russian province.

For the past two months, the “number of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the fighting in the Russian border region has exceeded 20,800,” the Russian Defense Ministry claimed, as reported by RT.

During the day, units of the Northern group repelled four enemy counterattacks in the direction of the town of Pliojovo, as well as two attempts by Ukrainian troops to cross the Russian border toward the town of Novi Put.

Regarding military equipment, the Russian Army destroyed one artillery piece, three mortars, two vehicles, and one electronic warfare station.

Since the start of Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk, the Ukrainian Army has lost 136 tanks, 66 combat vehicles, 98 armored personnel carriers, 885 armored cars, 584 vehicles, 171 artillery pieces, and 33 multiple rocket launchers.

Additionally, Russian forces destroyed eight HIMARS missile systems and six U.S.-made MLRS systems, nine anti-aircraft missile system launchers, 45 electronic warfare stations, nine counter-battery radars, three air defense radars, and 22 engineering units.

teleSUR/ JF Sources: RT – Sputnik – EFE