Russia forces out invading Ukrainian forces from Martynovka in Kursk region: Chechen commander
Russian troops have managed to recapture Martynovka in Kursk region from invading Ukrainian forces, a commander says, a week after Kiev launched a cross-border attack into Russia’s soil for the first time.
In an interview with Russia’s state news agency RIA on Wednesday, Major General Apti Alaudinov, commander of Chechnya’s Akhmat Special Forces, said that Russian forces had regained control of the settlement of Martynovka in Kursk region.
He added that Ukrainian forces did not have complete control of the town of Sudzha in Kursk region either.
The town is home to a pipeline that continues transporting Russian natural gas to Europe despite the ongoing hostilities.
“The enemy is all around and in some parts of the city. Active clashes happen there each day. The enemy can’t claim full control of Sudzha because, in reality, it doesn’t have it,” Alaudinov further said.
Separately on Wednesday, Alaudinov shared a video on his Telegram channel, claiming that Ukraine had deployed between 11,600 and 11,900 soldiers in Kursk region.
Ukraine has “thrown all of its resources that were more or less operational into the furnace where they won’t escape anymore,” Alaudinov said.
On August 6, Ukrainian forces mounted a surprise invasion into Russian territory in what was described as Kiev’s biggest attack on Russia’s soil since the Ukraine war started in February 2022.
In the attack, Ukrainian forces crossed the border into Russia and launched an incursion into Kursk region, capturing several villages. However, their advance deep into Russian territory has been halted by Russian armed forces.
Since Russia launched its military campaign in Donbas in February 2022, the West has flooded Ukraine with an overwhelming supply of Western weapons and ammunition to help strengthen the Kiev forces against Russian troops.
Despite the all-out support for Kiev by the US-led Western countries, the former Soviet republic has failed to gain any militarily-significant objectives in the West's proxy war against Russia.
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