Bridges thrown in the air, street struggles and mined fields. New Ukrainian assault in Kursk, Russians respond with bombardments

Intense struggles continue along the northeastern border of Ukraine, where Kiev has launched a new cross-border assault on the Russian Kursk region, while on the Ukrainian territory, on the other side of the border, the air bombardments and the increasingly numerous Russian artillery have led to the province of the province. Wednesday the Spanish press agency EFE.

The active struggle area has expanded in Kursk to several localities in the Glușkovo district, after several hundred Ukrainian soldiers crossed the border on Sunday night near Tetkino and Novi Put, according to Russian military correspondents and foreign military analysts, quoted by Agerpres.

Ukrainian units have used demination equipment to help infantry to cross Russian mined fields, according to the US study Institute (ISW).

It is still clear how much the Ukrainian troops have submitted there, but a fighting inside Tetkino, an urban settlement. Ukrainian troops also try to isolate the Russian units in the area by attacking the bridges over the Seim river and other military infrastructures.

Kiev has not yet commented on his new operation, but claimed that he killed about 20 Russian soldiers in an attack on a Tetkino school on Sunday night.

Apart from this new area of ​​confrontations, the Ukrainian units are present in Kursk in a border area of ​​only about 17 square kilometers, after in the offensive surprise launched in August last year in this Russian province had occupied about 1,300 square kilometers, the territory recovered by the Russian army after the North Corea struggles.

What is pursuing the new incursion in Kursk of the Ukrainian army

The new Ukrainian operation in Kurk could pursue the difficulty of the operations of the Russian troops in the province of North-West of Ukraine, where the Russian units entered a distance of about 25 kilometers from the border and occupied four villages, now trying to occupy the town of Ionakivka, located on an important road between the Sum.

Russia has also intensified the air and artillery attacks on two communities near the border with the Kursk province, so the Ukrainian authorities demanded the evacuation of about 6,800 inhabitants. Until Tuesday, about 425 people had left their homes.

The new Ukrainian attack across the border could also aim to cause Russia not to move from there to the east Ukraine, which participated in the recovery of the anterior territory occupied by the Ukrainian army in Kursk.

Military analysts estimate that Ukraine could launch other such cross-border incursions to force the Russian army to disperse their resources of herds and equipment, as he hoped when he launched in Kursk the major offensive of August last year, but did not prevent the Russian units to continue-on the Est-