Situation in Russia's Kursk region: Ukraine's General Staff updated battle map on April 7
Illustrative photo: The General Staff updated data on the Kursk region (Getty Images)
Active combat operations are ongoing in the Kursk region. Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian forces repelled 35 enemy attacks, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
According to the morning update from the General Staff, in the Kursk direction, the enemy conducted 212 artillery strikes over the past day, 13 of which were from MLRS.
In addition, Russian troops carried out 16 airstrikes, dropping 27 guided aerial bombs.
Photo: Battle map as of the morning of April 7
At the same time, when compared with the previous battle map released by the General Staff on April 6, it is obvious that the Ukrainian Armed Forces made some advances in the area of Guevo.
Photo: Battle map as of the morning of April 6
According to the DeepState service, the buffer zone in the Kursk region as of April 7 covers an area of 63.18 square kilometers. This is down from the nearly 100 square kilometers that the Defense Forces controlled at the end of March.
Situation in the Kursk region
Situation in the Kursk region
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have been conducting an operation in the Kursk region for about 8 months. During this time, Ukrainian troops have taken control of around a hundred settlements in the region. The goal of the operation has been to draw Russian forces away from other areas of the front and to prevent a renewed Russian offensive in the eastern and northern regions of Ukraine.
At the beginning of February, the General Staff reported that Russia had lost 40,000 soldiers during the six months of the Kursk operation. In addition, Russia has brought North Korean soldiers into the fighting in the Kursk region.
In March, information began spreading online alleging that Ukrainian troops were encircled, but both the General Staff of the Armed Forces and President Volodymyr Zelensky denied this.
Recently, Zelensky stated that Russia wants to push Ukrainian troops out of the Kursk region. Currently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding back 64,000 occupying troops there.
"They want to push us completely out of the Kursk region, but everyone understands and confirms that we are there. There is no encirclement, we are in the Kursk region. And our presence is not only in the Kursk region," the President said.
