International Courant
MOSCOW
Russia on Tuesday determined to type three army teams inside its military to successfully reply to Ukrainian forces shelling civilian settlements and stop future incursions.
The choice was made at a gathering of the Coordinating Council on Navy Safety of Border Territories in Moscow, presided over by Protection Minister Andrey Belousov, who ordered the formation of Belgorod, Bryansk, and Kursk army teams named after three Russian areas bordering Ukraine which have been focused by Ukrainian shelling and cross-border assaults.
Belousov additionally appointed officers in command of border safety, in accordance with an announcement posted on the Protection Ministry’s official web site, which additionally included a video of the assembly.
The choice got here after Ukrainian troops crossed into Russia’s Kursk area two weeks in the past.
“The consultant of the Normal Workers of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the commanders of the Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk teams of forces are chargeable for defending residents and territories from assaults by drones and different technique of assault,” he mentioned.
The brand new officers should full the duties assigned to them inside 24 hours, and if they’re unable to finish the duty because of their place, they need to report back to the minister.
“I wish to emphasize as soon as once more that these officers must be in direct contact with the areas across the clock. No query must be ignored,” he careworn.
In the meantime, the Russian Protection Ministry mentioned in a separate assertion that the armed forces proceed to repel the Ukrainian troops’ assaults within the Kursk area.
Russian aviation and artillery have focused Ukrainian concentrations of manpower and reserves, whereas reconnaissance models are looking forests for teams making an attempt to advance deeper into Russian territory, it mentioned.
In keeping with the ministry, a lot of Ukrainian troopers have been captured, and a few army gear has been seized and destroyed.
“Reconnaissance and search operations are persevering with to determine and destroy enemy sabotage teams within the forests that attempted to penetrate deep into Russian territory,” it mentioned.
Russia and Ukraine troops are nonetheless combating within the Kursk area, the place Kyiv launched an incursion on August 5-6, with Moscow claiming it was orchestrated and supported by the West.
Ukraine claims to have captured 92 settlements since then, notably Sudzha city.
In keeping with Russian authorities, 17 individuals have been killed, 140 extra injured, and over 121,000 evacuated following the incursion by Ukrainian troops.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed Kyiv captured 92 Russian settlements, describing the target of the “incursions” because the “institution of a buffer zone.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the incursion as a “terrorist assault.”
Earlier on Tuesday, Moscow summoned American Cost d’affaires Stephanie Holmes to formally protest the incursions of US non-public army corporations (PMC) troopers together with Ukrainian troops into the Kursk area, in addition to journalists from US media retailers getting into Russian territory to cowl it.
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