03:46Russian 'Akhmat' Special Forces troops carried out operations in the Kursk region following the Ukrainian incursion last week, with some describing the 'fierce fighting' continuing in Sudzha and surrounding areas on Wednesday.
"All units working towards Kursk are doing a titanic job. Simply titanic. Our guys are not sleeping, not eating, but knocking the enemy out. Slowly, patiently, systematically, working with artillery, rolling and so on and so forth, the enemy is being knocked out," said one commander, known by his call sign 'Sanakhchi'.
He also claimed that Russian warplanes had stopped the Ukrainian advance.
"Now, we are able to anticipate the enemy's next move, both through equipment and machinery and, in principle, through good intelligence. <...> We have already bought the attack, which means that the enemy is no longer advancing. Now, the main task is to drive him out of our country, restore the original borders, and move on," he continued.
He also told of how his company had engaged Ukrainian forces in the village of Martynovka.
"We had a very good result yesterday: from 11 o'clock at night, while watching the sky, we identified a rotation (movement) in one of the settlements, to be precise - it was in Martynovka, on the outskirts of Martynovka, to be precise - the southern part of it. In several houses we noticed enemy rotation… There was a very dense fire attack on these houses," he reported.
The commander also thanked civilians for helping his fighters, noting that "even an [ordinary] granny, can just be passing by and invite you to eat normal human food."
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces "continue to repel the attempted invasion of Russian territory by the AFU".
"Attempts to break through enemy mobile groups on armoured vehicles deep into Russian territory in the areas of Skrylevka, Levshinka, Semenovka, Alekseevsky, Kamyshansky have been thwarted. Two groups of enemy pickup trucks were detected and destroyed near Martynovka," the Defence Ministry reported.
Ukrainian forces entered Kursk region on August 6, which Russian President Vladimir Putin called a 'large-scale provocation'. Putin met with governors of Russia's border regions on Monday. According to the Kursk region's acting government, 12 people were killed, 121 wounded, including 10 children, in the attack.
Kursk's acting governor also claimed that "28 settlements are under the enemy's control", with Ukrainian forces advancing 12 kilometres in depth and 40 kilometres across.
A counter-terrorist operation regime was introduced in the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions on August 9, while around 121,000 people have been evacuated from the Kursk border districts.
On Tuesday, AFU Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky claimed that Ukrainian forces controlled '74 settlements', having previously stated that his forces had '1,000 square kilometres' of Russian territory. President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as 'purely [a] security issue for Ukraine'.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
'Guys are not sleeping, not eating, but knocking the enemy out' - Russia's Akhmat forces fighter on situation in Kursk region
Russian 'Akhmat' Special Forces troops carried out operations in the Kursk region following the Ukrainian incursion last week, with some describing the 'fierce fighting' continuing in Sudzha and surrounding areas on Wednesday.
"All units working towards Kursk are doing a titanic job. Simply titanic. Our guys are not sleeping, not eating, but knocking the enemy out. Slowly, patiently, systematically, working with artillery, rolling and so on and so forth, the enemy is being knocked out," said one commander, known by his call sign 'Sanakhchi'.
He also claimed that Russian warplanes had stopped the Ukrainian advance.
"Now, we are able to anticipate the enemy's next move, both through equipment and machinery and, in principle, through good intelligence. <...> We have already bought the attack, which means that the enemy is no longer advancing. Now, the main task is to drive him out of our country, restore the original borders, and move on," he continued.
He also told of how his company had engaged Ukrainian forces in the village of Martynovka.
"We had a very good result yesterday: from 11 o'clock at night, while watching the sky, we identified a rotation (movement) in one of the settlements, to be precise - it was in Martynovka, on the outskirts of Martynovka, to be precise - the southern part of it. In several houses we noticed enemy rotation… There was a very dense fire attack on these houses," he reported.
The commander also thanked civilians for helping his fighters, noting that "even an [ordinary] granny, can just be passing by and invite you to eat normal human food."
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces "continue to repel the attempted invasion of Russian territory by the AFU".
"Attempts to break through enemy mobile groups on armoured vehicles deep into Russian territory in the areas of Skrylevka, Levshinka, Semenovka, Alekseevsky, Kamyshansky have been thwarted. Two groups of enemy pickup trucks were detected and destroyed near Martynovka," the Defence Ministry reported.
Ukrainian forces entered Kursk region on August 6, which Russian President Vladimir Putin called a 'large-scale provocation'. Putin met with governors of Russia's border regions on Monday. According to the Kursk region's acting government, 12 people were killed, 121 wounded, including 10 children, in the attack.
Kursk's acting governor also claimed that "28 settlements are under the enemy's control", with Ukrainian forces advancing 12 kilometres in depth and 40 kilometres across.
A counter-terrorist operation regime was introduced in the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions on August 9, while around 121,000 people have been evacuated from the Kursk border districts.
On Tuesday, AFU Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky claimed that Ukrainian forces controlled '74 settlements', having previously stated that his forces had '1,000 square kilometres' of Russian territory. President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as 'purely [a] security issue for Ukraine'.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Russian 'Akhmat' Special Forces troops carried out operations in the Kursk region following the Ukrainian incursion last week, with some describing the 'fierce fighting' continuing in Sudzha and surrounding areas on Wednesday.
"All units working towards Kursk are doing a titanic job. Simply titanic. Our guys are not sleeping, not eating, but knocking the enemy out. Slowly, patiently, systematically, working with artillery, rolling and so on and so forth, the enemy is being knocked out," said one commander, known by his call sign 'Sanakhchi'.
He also claimed that Russian warplanes had stopped the Ukrainian advance.
"Now, we are able to anticipate the enemy's next move, both through equipment and machinery and, in principle, through good intelligence. <...> We have already bought the attack, which means that the enemy is no longer advancing. Now, the main task is to drive him out of our country, restore the original borders, and move on," he continued.
He also told of how his company had engaged Ukrainian forces in the village of Martynovka.
"We had a very good result yesterday: from 11 o'clock at night, while watching the sky, we identified a rotation (movement) in one of the settlements, to be precise - it was in Martynovka, on the outskirts of Martynovka, to be precise - the southern part of it. In several houses we noticed enemy rotation… There was a very dense fire attack on these houses," he reported.
The commander also thanked civilians for helping his fighters, noting that "even an [ordinary] granny, can just be passing by and invite you to eat normal human food."
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces "continue to repel the attempted invasion of Russian territory by the AFU".
"Attempts to break through enemy mobile groups on armoured vehicles deep into Russian territory in the areas of Skrylevka, Levshinka, Semenovka, Alekseevsky, Kamyshansky have been thwarted. Two groups of enemy pickup trucks were detected and destroyed near Martynovka," the Defence Ministry reported.
Ukrainian forces entered Kursk region on August 6, which Russian President Vladimir Putin called a 'large-scale provocation'. Putin met with governors of Russia's border regions on Monday. According to the Kursk region's acting government, 12 people were killed, 121 wounded, including 10 children, in the attack.
Kursk's acting governor also claimed that "28 settlements are under the enemy's control", with Ukrainian forces advancing 12 kilometres in depth and 40 kilometres across.
A counter-terrorist operation regime was introduced in the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions on August 9, while around 121,000 people have been evacuated from the Kursk border districts.
On Tuesday, AFU Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky claimed that Ukrainian forces controlled '74 settlements', having previously stated that his forces had '1,000 square kilometres' of Russian territory. President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as 'purely [a] security issue for Ukraine'.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.