”Violation of the border”: Russia says it’s sending reserves to Kursk Oblast

The Russian Ministry of Defence has said that it has deployed reserve troops to the Russian-Ukrainian border in Kursk Oblast.

Source: Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on Telegram; Interfax-Russia news agency 

Details: The Russian Defence Ministry said that 300 Ukrainian soldiers, 11 tanks and more than 20 armoured personnel carriers attacked Russian units near the Russian state border in Kursk Oblast.

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The ministry claimed that the assault was launched at 08:00 Moscow time on 6 August and targeted the “units covering the state border of the Russian Federation in the vicinity of the towns of Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya in Kursk Oblast, directly adjacent to the Russian-Ukrainian border.”

Russian border forces and border guard units of the Russian Federal Security Service are allegedly repelling the Ukrainian attack.

Background:

• Earlier on 6 August, Russian authorities claimed that Ukraine launched a large-scale drone and missile attack on Russia’s Kursk Oblast.

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