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By admin On Aug 9, 2024

NY POST: Kyiv launches new ‘massive attack’ in Russia as reeling Kremlin rushes reinforcements to region:

Ukraine on Friday launched another “massive attack” inside Russia as the Kremlin scrambled to get reinforcements to the area and nailed a Ukraine mall in Donetsk with a missile, killing at least 14.

The Ukrainian military said its drones struck a key military airfield in Russia’s Lipetsk region overnight, damaging stockpiles of guided bombs and causing a series of detonations.

The attack occurred four days after hundreds of Ukrainian troops poured across the Russian border into Kursk in a surprise assault — for what appeared to be Kyiv’s biggest attack on its Goliath neighbor since the Kremlin invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

Ukraine has been attacking Russian airbases in its new offensive to reduce Moscow’s ability to use warplanes to strike targets in Ukraine and hammer front lines with guided bombs and missiles, Reuters reported.

The Ukrainian military moved farther into Russia with Friday’s attack on Lipetsk.

“Several sources of ignition were recorded, a large fire broke out and multiple detonations were observed,” Kyiv’s military said on the Telegram messaging app.

The Russian governor of the Lipetsk region, Igor Artamonov, said a “massive attack” by Ukrainian drones had caused explosions, disrupted power supply and wounded at least nine people.

The Interfax news agency cited local emergency officials as saying a fire had broken out at the airbase outside the regional capital.

Russia declared a “federal-level” emergency in the Kursk region after the Ukrainian infiltration earlier in the week and sent reinforcements there on Friday.

Kursk was still reporting missile danger alerts as of Friday, according to Google-translated Telegram updates from regional Gov. Alexei Smirnov, who said the local situation remained “difficult.” —>READ MORE HERE

Kursk Governor Says Situation ‘Difficult’ As Ukrainian Incursion Enters 4th Day

Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones strike an airbase in Russia’s western Lipetsk region, causing significant material damage.

The situation in Russia’s Kursk remains tenuous, acting regional governor Alexey Smirnov said on Aug. 9, as a large Ukrainian ground incursion into the region entered its fourth day.

“The situation in the Kursk region remains difficult,” Smirnov wrote in a social-media post.

“In cooperation with the [Russian] social services and non-governmental organizations, a system of assistance to internally displaced persons has been organized,” he added.

A day earlier, local officials said 3,000 residents of Kursk’s border area had been evacuated, half of whom were now in temporary shelters.

According to Russian state media, a distribution center for humanitarian aid has been set up in the region, along with stockpiles of water, medical supplies, and emergency power generators.

On Aug. 6, hundreds of Ukrainian troops—backed by tanks, artillery, and armored vehicles—entered Kursk from northeastern Ukraine.

The next day, Russia’s defense ministry said its forces had stopped a Ukrainian bid to seize the border town of Sudzha, a key transit hub for Russian natural gas.

Hours later, Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s military chief-of-staff, informed President Vladimir Putin that combined Russian forces had halted the Ukrainian advance.

Nevertheless, Kursk’s acting governor declared a region-wide state of emergency in the face of continued “infiltration” by “enemy forces.”

Russia’s National Guard, meanwhile, stepped up security at Kursk’s nuclear power plant, which sits roughly 35 miles northeast of Sudzha.

On Aug. 9, Russia’s defense ministry claimed that Ukraine had lost almost 950 troops and more than 100 armored vehicles—including 12 tanks—since the armed incursion began.

In line with longstanding policy, it did not provide numbers for Russian casualties.

However, video footage has been posted online purportedly showing a convoy of burnt-out Russian military trucks sitting alongside a highway in Kursk.

According to Russian officials, five local residents have been killed—and dozens injured—by Ukrainian drone attacks and artillery bombardments.

It isn’t the first time that Kyiv has staged a major ground incursion into Russian territory.

In 2023, Russian forces repelled several large-scale assaults—into both Kursk and neighboring Belgorod—by what Moscow described as “Ukrainian saboteurs.”