Observers expected an attack of this type before January 7.
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Ukrainian air defense downed 61 of 103 drones launched by the Russia on the night of Saturday Sunday, according to the Air Force announcement. Forty-two other drones were “lost”added Kyiv. No casualties or major damage were immediately reported.
In Russiaairports in the cities of Kazan, Nizhnekamsk, Izhevsk and Perm were briefly closed by the authorities. The aviation watchdog did not specify the reason but it is common for closures to be decided in the event of a Ukrainian drone attack in the region.
Kursk, act II
But it is another piece of information that is shaking up social networks this Sunday morning: in fact, according to several bloggers and observers of the conflict, Ukraine has launched a surprise counter-offensive in the Russian region of Koursk. A highly symbolic place since it is already located in Russia. Also because it is there that the Russians won the largest tank battle in history against the Germans in 1943. But a place which is also intended to be strategic, since the Ukrainians intend, with this offensive, to provoke a sort of managerial chaos in the Kremlin which focuses on other territories such as Donbass.
A number of Russian channels say that Ukraine has began an offensive operation from near Sudzha towards Bolshoye Soldatskoye in Kursk oblast with armored vehicles. They say Ukrainian EW has been effective against their UAVs and that Ukrainian units cleared mines overnight.… pic.twitter.com/jfllbH9kpj
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1875821632473674152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
In August, the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk caused a lot of noise and raised great hopes in the ranks led by the president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Since November, the Russians have been trying to recover lost territories in the region. But the Ukrainians would have struck hard, with what appears to be an armored attack. The Bolshoye Soldatskoye sector returns in the various publications. Russian informants recall having warned that Ukraine had planned to attack before January 7. Information that still needs to be confirmed.
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