He said this on the air of the “Espresso” television channel.
“The Ukrainian General Staff actually outmaneuvered the Russians. The successful breakthrough of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the area of the settlements of Vedmezhe, Vesele, Novy Shlyakh is the Glushkiv district of the Kursk region. And the Russians themselves are talking about the threat of withdrawal of the Ukrainian Defense Forces to the Glushkove railway station. I do not rule out the possibility that the Ukrainian Defense Forces will continue to successfully destroy Russian pontoon crossings on the Seim River, which will make it impossible to transfer operational reserves and heavy armored vehicles to the Russian occupiers trying to break through the Ukrainian defenses in the Lyubimivka area,” Snegiriev noted.
According to the co-chairman of the IG “Prava Sprava”, the main thing that has been noted in recent days is the possible expansion of the zone of presence of the Ukrainian Defence Forces into the territory of other regions of the Russian Federation, primarily Bilgorod and Bryansk.
“A series of successful attacks on the Russian army’s rear infrastructure in the Bryansk region led to the destruction of field ammunition depots and places of permanent deployment of equipment. A similar situation is observed in the Belgorod region. Moreover, the Russians themselves do not exclude the possibility of a repetition of the Kursk scenario already on the territory of the Belgorod region regarding the extraction of hydrotechnical structures in this region in order to stop a possible successful offensive of the Ukrainian troops,” Snegiryov explained.
What is known about the events in the Kursk region
On Tuesday, August 6, the authorities of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation announced that the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly tried to break through the Russian border, but were allegedly able to prevent it. Later, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that “the Ukrainian DRG retreated to its territory.” The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine declined to comment on the statements regarding the Kursk region.
On August 7, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the military leadership of the Russian Federation over the situation in the Kursk region, which he described as a “large-scale provocation.” At the time, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called on the international community to “resolutely condemn the criminal attacks of the kyiv regime on Russian territory.”
On August 10, Ukrainian President Zelensky called the operation in the Kursk region “war extortion on the territory of the aggressor.” In the evening of the same day, the authorities introduced a regime of anti-terrorist operations in the Russian regions of Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod.
On August 14, it became known that the Ukrainian army had formed a “sanitary (buffer) zone” for self-defense in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. It is planned to open humanitarian corridors there for the evacuation of civilians, and if necessary, military command posts will be created in the Russian region.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi, in Stavka with the President on August 15, announced that Ukraine had created the first military command post in the Kursk region to provide humanitarian aid to local residents.
On August 15, The Independent reported that during the operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, about two thousand Russian servicemen were captured.
On September 13, it became known that during August 2024, the Russians submitted 1,927 appeals to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin regarding missing or captured servicemen. This is a record number since the beginning of the large-scale invasion.
On the same day, Zelenskyi said that Russia intends to withdraw 60,000-70,000 of its troops to the Kursk region. According to him, the enemy launched a rapid offensive there, but did not achieve any significant success.
On September 19, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that around 40,000 Russian troops had been diverted to the Kursk area thanks to the operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the region.
