Russian Defense Ministry Responds to Reported Ukrainian Border Breach in Kursk Region

The Russian Defense Ministry commented on the border breach by Ukraine in the Kursk region, saying military reserves will be used to repel the attack.

“The troops covering the state border together with the units of the border troops of the FSB [Federal Security Service] of Russia are repelling attacks and inflicting fire damage on the enemy in the area of ​​the state border and reserves in the territory of the Sumy region,” the Ministry said on their official Telegram channel. “Reserves of the Russian group of troops in the Kursk direction are on their way to the combat area.”

The Russian Defense Ministry released the statement at 5 pm, August 6. 

Earlier today, in the morning, the governor of Russia's Kursk region, reported an attempt by Ukrainian Forces to break through in the Kursk border.

The Russian Ministry reports that 300 hundred soldiers from the 22nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, supported by 11 tanks and more than 20 armored combat vehicles, have attacked the settlements of Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya in the Kursk region, directly adjacent to the Russian-Ukrainian border.

They continued stating the Russian aviation targeted Basivka, Zhuravka, Khotin, Yunakivka, Bilovody and Khrapivshchyna in the Ukrainian Sumy region.