The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday that the Ukrainians had launched counterattacks to stop a Russian offensive, according to the official TASS news agency.
The Kursk offensive – the first ground invasion of Russia by a foreign power since World War II – took Russia and Ukraine’s allies by surprise when it was launched.
Unofficial Russian military blogs, which often provide reliable reporting on the Ukraine conflict, acknowledged the fighting on Sunday.
“The enemy has thrown reserves into the offensive in Kursk region,” said one blog Sunday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin declined to say when Russia would recapture the southern Kursk region after a phone-in question at his year-end news conference last month.
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