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Russian Forces Suffer Heavy Losses in a Failed Attempt to Gain Control Over Kursk Region

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Russian Forces Suffer Heavy Losses in a Failed Attempt to Gain Control Over Kursk Region
This photograph shows a destroyed Russian tank outside Ukrainian-controlled Russian town of Sudzha, Kursk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, August 16, 2024. (Source: Getty Images)

Russia’s marine and airborne command is sending armored vehicles straight into Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region, only to be met by the elite 47th Mechanized Brigade and suffer heavy losses, Forbes reported on January 28.

“Russians desperately trying to liberate Kursk Oblast and suffering huge losses,” according to Kriegsforscher, a Ukrainian Marine Corps drone operator whose team has been defending the same sector as the 47th Mechanized Brigade.

According to the outlet, a three-day assault beginning on January 18, led by Russia’s 155th Naval Infantry Brigade and 234th Air Assault Regiment, resulted in the loss of 14 BMP  and BMD  fighting vehicles, along with three T-80 tanks.

In a separate attack on or just before January 28, at least four tanks, fighting vehicles, and a pickup truck were deployed, with most, if not all, destroyed.

“The growing heap of charred wreckage accumulating around Nikolskii, one of the villages the 47th Mechanized Brigade garrisons on the western edge of the salient, speaks to the Russians’ failure, ‘ Forbes wrote.

Previously, on January 6, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that in five months of active combat in the Kursk region, Russian forces have suffered over 38,000 casualties.

In the summer of 2024, Zelenskyy revealed that Ukrainian Defense Forces launched the Kursk incursion as a preemptive measure in order to disrupt Russian plans to capture Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Sumy regions.

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