{"id":38833,"date":"2024-12-18T01:25:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=38833"},"modified":"2024-12-18T01:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:25:35","slug":"moscow-launches-heavy-counteroffensive-in-kursk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/moscow-launches-heavy-counteroffensive-in-kursk-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Launches Heavy Counteroffensive in Kursk Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Russia has launched a \u201cheavy counteroffensive\u201d in the Kursk region in western Russia, deploying North Korean forces to push back Ukrainian troops, according to the Ukrainian army\u2019s General Commander Oleksandr Syrskyi on Tuesday, as reported by AFP.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Syrskyi told local officials: \u201cFor three consecutive days, the military has been carrying out intense operations in the Kursk region, actively using units of the North Korean army.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Intelligence agencies from Ukraine, the U.S., and South Korea reported that North Korea had sent approximately 10,000 troops to Russia to assist its forces.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Syrskyi noted that \u201cthe North Korean mercenaries have already suffered significant casualties. Ukrainian defenders are holding their ground, destroying enemy personnel and equipment,\u201d without providing further details.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ukraine also reported on Monday that its forces killed or injured at least 30 North Korean soldiers in Kursk.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Reports of the new Russian counteroffensive in Kursk coincide with Moscow\u2019s progress in eastern Ukraine. The Russian army announced earlier on Tuesday that it had taken control of another small village in the Donetsk region, about 10 kilometers south of the resource-rich city of Kurakhove, which Moscow is also close to seizing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Syrskyi described the \u201cmost difficult situation\u201d as currently being near Kurakhove and the mining town of Pokrovsk, key targets for Russian control.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe operational and strategic situation remains challenging\u201d along the 1,170-kilometer front line, Syrskyi added, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that his forces \u201chave the upper hand along the front.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has launched a \u201cheavy counteroffensive\u201d in the Kursk region in western Russia, deploying North Korean forces to push back Ukrainian troops, according to the Ukrainian army\u2019s General Commander Oleksandr Syrskyi on Tuesday, as reported by AFP. Syrskyi told local officials: \u201cFor three consecutive days, the military has been carrying out intense operations in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38834,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38833\/revisions\/38834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}