Ukrainian troops' video shows them making passages through minefields to break through to Russia's Kursk Oblast

VALENTYNA ROMANENKO — Monday, 23 September 2024, 17:13

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The Ukrainian military has posted a video showing their engineers creating passages through minefields and barriers on the border with Russia's Kursk Oblast.

Source: 49th Engineer Assault Brigade; Ukrainian Armed Forces Support Command

Quote: "Watching the 49th Engineer Assault Brigade breach the Russian border for the second time in a month is amazing."

Details: The combat engineers created openings in Russian minefields and barriers in Kursk Oblast, enabling Ukrainian troops to advance further into Russian territory.

Previously: On 23 September, the command of Ukraine's Airborne Forces reported that soldiers from the 95th Separate Air Assault Brigade had penetrated a section of the Russian border.

Background:

Ukraine’s operation in Kursk Oblast began on 6 August 2024. On 10 August, day five of the Ukrainian army's advance deeper into Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledged that Ukraine had pushed the war onto Russian territory.
On 27 August, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that since the beginning of the operation in Kursk Oblast, Ukraine had captured 594 Russian soldiers and controlled more than 100 settlements or 1,294 sq. km of territory.
It is known from open sources that the core of the Kursk operation consisted of two brigades of Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces – the legendary Lviv 80th Brigade and the newly formed Chernivtsi 82nd Brigade. In the second week of the operation, they were joined by part of the 95th Air Assault Brigade.
On 13 September, Zelenskyy stated that the Russians had launched their "rapid offensive" in Kursk Oblast, though they had not achieved any significant results.
On 18 September, Oleksii Dmytrashkivskyi, the representative of the Ukrainian military commandant’s office in Kursk Oblast, reported that Russia's counter-offensive to recapture Ukrainian-controlled territory in Kursk Oblast had been "stopped".