The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue their successful offensive in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation for the third day.

The operation continues to take place in complete information silence from official representatives of the Ukrainian army.

“Everyone sees that the Ukrainian army knows how to surprise. And it knows how to achieve results,” noted Volodymyr Zelensky.

Earlier, the adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Mykhailo Podolyak, stated that “the aggressor always reaps the corresponding fruits.”

So, what is happening now in the Kursk region, which is still shrouded in a thick “fog of war”? Based on the anguished statements of Russian “war correspondents”, Ukrainian troops have expanded their zone of control in the region from 15 km to approximately 30-35 kilometers in the past 24 hours.

Some Russian “insiders” claim that the Defense Forces have brought reserves into the liberated territories of Kursk region and that three mechanized and three airborne assault brigades, a separate assault brigade and attached assault battalions, special forces of the State Border Service, as well as the Territorial Defense forces are currently taking part in the operation.

Based on statements from the enemy side, as well as maps published in the media, the following picture emerges: our troops are concentrated in two attack directions.https://dumskaya.net/pics1/pics2/c0-1723127513.jpg

In the north, the group is moving along the so-called Starokurskoye Highway towards the city of Lgov, which is located next to Kurchatov, where the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant is located.

Considering that, according to the latest data, in the morning our soldiers were operating in the area of ​​the village of Anastasyevka, which is 30 kilometers north of the city of Sudzha, which was liberated yesterday, and then with a small fight passed the village of Kromskie Byki and reached the village of Cheremoshki, which is another 6 kilometers further, then the advance is going quite successfully.

Another direction of the breakthrough runs along the highway a little to the east along the line of the villages of Bolshoe Soldatskoe – Levshino – Shagarovo, where our forces have literally just entered.

Of course, these are probably not our main forces, but only sabotage groups that set up ambushes and burn columns of equipment that the enemy is trying to transfer from Lgov. However, the trend is clear, there are about 16 km left from these places to Lgov, and 30 km to the Kuban NPP.

Another group operates in the northwest direction from Sudzha, roughly speaking, along the state border. There, our troops managed to take control of more than 30 kilometers of the Rylsk-Sudzha bypass road and come close to the village of Korenevo. Russian “war correspondents” happily reported in the morning that they managed to stop the Ukrainian troops on the approaches to it. However, control over Korenevo was probably not the key task of our units, or the command decided to simply outflank it. This is evidenced by incoming information about the presence of Ukrainian forces in the village of Snagost, 9 kilometers south of Korenevo.

The movement towards Rylsk may be caused by the desire to block (or destroy) the bridge across the Seim River near this settlement, which will effectively block the city in the zone of the operation, cut it off from the rest of the Rostov region, leaving only the bypass road that goes further north to the village of Khomutovka for entry. In this regard, the fears of Russian “war correspondents” about the fact that Ukrainian troops may make another border crossing, for example, somewhere in the Bryansk region along the Chuykovka – Podyvotye – Kositsy line, in order to reach that same Khomutovka in the rear and finally close this operational space, seem quite logical. For now, this is just a fantasy, let’s see what our command will do next. However, right now it seems that the Korenevo – Rylsk direction is secondary and is caused by the need to cover the left flank of our Sudzhensk group. The right flank, the road running from Sudzha to the village of Belitsa, was subjected to very dense remote mining yesterday.

And what are the enemies doing? New evidence is emerging of mass surrenders of Russian soldiers (mostly conscripts) at border strongholds. They say that the exchange fund has been replenished by about 300 Russian servicemen. In some areas (for example, somewhere in the Snagosti area), hastily formed units have been thrown into battle – a “hodgepodge”, which includes service personnel from airfields.

Ukrainian telegram channels associated with the Defense Forces claim that the Russians are forming a strike force of about 2,000 soldiers in Kurchatov, hoping to march on Sudzha and recapture the territories occupied by Ukrainian troops. There is also information about the transfer of Russian units currently involved in the assault on Volchansk and detachments of former “Wagner” from the Pokrovsk direction to the Kursk front. These enemy actions may also fit into the Defense Forces command plan – due to the sudden crisis, the enemy is forced to weaken its group in the areas of breakthroughs in the east of our country.

Russian aviation is very active in the Kursk region, bombing its own villages occupied by Ukrainian troops. It also flies over the Sumy region. On the evening of August 7, information appeared that a pair of Russian Ka-52 helicopters mistakenly destroyed their own column of armored vehicles – several lowboys with T-62 tanks that were traveling in the direction of Sudzha.

At the same time, the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration stated that the region has not been subjected to bomb attacks for 24 hours. The occupiers are probably afraid of our air defense forces, which have become closer to their KAB drop areas.