Ukraine attacks military column near Kursk, Russia declares state of emergency (Video)

Last night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) attacked a Russian military convoy near Kursk. Pictures of the fire, which engulfed military equipment, were published by several Telegram channels belonging to the military. Russia has declared the Ukrainian offensive a federal emergency.

The column was attacked in the village of Oktyabrskoye, which is located 8 km from Rilsk. The army moved on the highway that before the war connected Glukhov in Ukraine with Kursk, passing through Rilsk and Lgov. According to the calculations of the edition “Group”, the place of the strike is located about 30 km from the Ukrainian border and 20 km from the urban-type settlement of Korenevo, where the fight with the armed forces of Ukraine takes place.

According to the Telegram channel “Military Informant”, the attack on the convoy by Russian troops was carried out by the American HIMARS missile system. The Ukrainian army used it for the first time since they entered Russia.

According to the calculations of the military analyst Yan Matveev, 14 Ural and KAMAZ armored vehicles carrying infantry were destroyed, and some vehicles were completely burned.

“The whole column seems to have been infantry. They had guns, maybe one platoon per car. 3-4 companies – a whole battalion destroyed. This is one of the bloodiest and worst attacks of the entire war,” Matveev notes.

After the video of the burning weapons column was released, military Z-bloggers started demanding that those responsible for the incident be punished.

“Whoever gave the order to move in a column in the helicopter search area and, accordingly, defeat Haimars, is not only an ass, but should also be condemned according to the laws of war ,” wrote Z-blogger Roman Alekhin.

Another Z-blogger Yuri Podoliaka agreed with this opinion. “How long can it be? The war is going on for the third year, and someone has a passion to move in columns on the front line,” he asks.

The incident in the Kursk region was the result not only of the “insurmountable stupidity” of the person who gave the order to move in column, but also of the “chaotic accumulation of reserves in the area of ​​the siege, for they were not ready at all”, emphasizes “Military Informant”.

The armed forces of Ukraine attacked the territory of the Kursk region on the morning of August 6 and in three days captured at least 20 settlements, it is written Mediapool. The area occupied by the Ukrainian formations exceeded 100 square kilometers. A day earlier, military bloggers noted that the situation was getting worse: Ukrainian troops had about 30 km to go in a straight line to the Kursk NPP.

The armed forces of Ukraine attacked the city of Rilsk with weapons and continued to fight for the city of Suja. The day before, Ukrainian troops were seen 35 km from Suja and 50 km from Kursk.

The armed forces of Ukraine are moving towards Lgov, an administrative center with a population of almost 20,000, writes Russian military correspondents. As mentioned by the channel “Dva Majora”, people leave the city a lot by car, creating long traffic jams on narrow roads.

Earlier, the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Mykhailo Podoliak, said that Ukrainian troops had attacked the Kursk region to strengthen their position in the upcoming negotiations with Russia. According to him, the loss of land, people and equipment will have a positive impact on the position of the Russian side.

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, what is happening in the Kursk region is marked as a federal emergency against the background of an attack on the armed forces of Ukraine.

“A federal response level has been established in the department,” the department noted, adding that this decision was made by a government commission.

A federal state of emergency is declared in cases where the number of victims exceeds 500 people or the amount of damage exceeds 500 million rubles. Before that, there was a state of regional emergency in the Kursk region.

The acting governor of the Kursk region said, as of the morning of August 9, that the operational situation in the region remains difficult. Evacuations from the border areas continue around the clock. Smirnov promised that the people would be taken out on buses and trains.

At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of Russia announced that attempts were made to “attack enemy units deep in the area”. The divisions that joined the group of soldiers “North” and the reserves take part in the operation.

The military department reported the loss of Ukrainian forces and equipment near the villages of Darino and Gogolevka, the villages of Melovoi and Nikolsky, as well as on the western outskirts of the city of Suja. In the region of the city of Yuzhny, aircraft destroyed five Stryker armored personnel carriers, and near the village of Martynovka, a column of the armed forces of Ukraine, which included a tank, four armored personnel carriers and a Kozak combat vehicle, says the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

Russian intelligence has known for two weeks about the upcoming attack on Ukraine’s armed forces, the largest since the start of the war, a source close to the Kremlin told Bloomberg.

According to him, the warning was ignored by the Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, who himself did not forward the information to Vladimir Putin.

The Kremlin’s patience with Gerasimov is running out, but Putin is unlikely to decide to fire him, the source said.