Russian army says it will soon eradicate ‘scattered remnants’ of Ukrainian forces in Kursk
A Russian military commander has told President Vladimir Putin that “the scattered remnants” of the Ukrainian army remaining in Russia’s Kursk region will soon be destroyed, the state RIA news agency reported on Sunday.
“At the moment we have recaptured the settlement of Gornal and are entrenched in its streets, which is completely under our control,” the commander was cited as saying, adding that Russian troops continue to clear forest areas west and south of Gornal.
Putin on Saturday hailed what he said was the complete failure of an offensive by Ukrainian forces in Kursk after Moscow said they had been expelled from the last village they had been holding.
“The full defeat of the enemy in the Kursk border region creates conditions for further successful actions by our forces on other important parts of the front,” Putin said.
Kyiv, however, denied that its forces had been expelled from Kursk and said they were also still operating in Belgorod, another Russian region bordering Ukraine.
In a statement on the social media platform Telegram, the Ukrainian military said its forces were continuing their operations in some districts of the Kursk region.
