On the other hand, today a woman in the Russian region of Belgorod died as a result of a Ukrainian artillery attack.
This Saturday the third prisoner of war exchange since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Each party has recovered 103 soldiers with the humanitarian mediation of the United Arab Emirates.
Including Russian fighter jets released this weekend Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine in Kursksuch as in late August, when the two sides exchanged 230 foreign prisoners.
Zelensk celebrated on his Telegram channel the return of 82 private soldiers and non-commissioned officers and 21 officers, including 31 defenders from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, in the eastern Donetsk region.
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On the other hand, the Ukrainian troops continue to apply pressure and even advance in some parts of the Russian region Kurskdespite Russia’s recent counteroffensive.
The Russian military launched a counteroffensive this week in Kursk, where Ukrainian troops entered on August 6, in an attempt to repel Russian attacks on the northeastern regions of Kharkov and Sumi and slow Russian pressure on the eastern front from Donetsk. kilometers of territory.
Russia claims to have done so regained control of ten cities and while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted this week that a Russian counteroffensive is underway, both the Pentagon and the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) currently consider the operation “marginal.”
Zelensky also assured that Russia has not achieved “significant results” in the counterattack, for which Russia plans – he said – to increase the number of soldiers deployed in Kursk to between 60,000 and 70,000.
Woman dies in Belgorod after Ukrainian attack
In addition, a woman was killed today in the Russian region of Belgorod as a result of a Ukrainian artillery strike, local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. “We have another civilian victim,” he wrote on Telegram.
Four other people were injured throughout the day in Belgorod as a result of other Ukrainian attacks in this border area, Gladkov said.
According to data provided by Belgorod authorities in July, more than 200 residents of that region have been killed by Ukrainian attacks since the start of the war in February 2022.
Source: EITB
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