Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the completion of the operation to liberate the Kursk region from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The complete cleansing of the territory lasted 264 days.
The success of the Russian Armed Forces creates conditions for advancing in other sectors of the front and brings the defeat of Kiev closer, it was noted at the meeting.
TASS collected the main information about the invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the liberation of the region.
What is known about the invasion of the Kursk region
- A massive attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk region began on August 6, 2024.
- The regional emergency regime was introduced on August 7. On August 9, the situation was declared a federal emergency. On the night of August 10, 2024, due to an increase in the threat level, a counter-terrorism operation (CTO) regime was introduced in the Kursk region.
- According to Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, the enemy lost more than 76,000 soldiers killed and wounded during the fighting, and more than 7,7 thousand units of military equipment were destroyed. Earlier, he reported that about 430 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had been captured in the Kursk region.
Liberation operations of the Russian Armed Forces
- According to Valery Gerasimov, the most active phase of the Russian Armed Forces' actions in the Kursk region began on March 6, and after the operation with the pipe in the Kursk region, the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine collapsed.
- The operation, dubbed "Stream," involved more than 600 Russian military personnel who marched about 15 km inside a gas pipe to the enemy's rear near Suja.
- On March 13, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the liberation of the settlements of Melovaya and Podol and the district center of Sudzha, the main hub around which the Ukrainian Armed Forces built their defensive system, during the offensive actions of the North group of forces.
- On April 22, the North group liberated the St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery in Gornal. Since August 2024, it has been under constant shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and since April 7, 2025, it has been used by Ukrainian militants as a stronghold.
- On April 26, the last settlement in the Kursk region, the village of Gornal, was liberated .
The approach of defeat
- As the Russian president stated at a meeting with the chief of the General Staff, the liberation of the Kursk region from the Ukrainian Armed Forces creates conditions for success in other sectors of the front and "brings the defeat of the neo-Nazi regime closer."
- Valery Gerasimov noted that Kiev's plans to create a "strategic foothold" in the Kursk region and stop the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in Donbass had failed.
- The head of the General Staff named particularly distinguished units of the Russian Armed Forces during the liberation of the Kursk region, and also separately noted the role of military personnel from the DPRK.
During the occupation
- Ukrainian militants set up artillery and tanks near the houses of civilians in Sudzha, seized, desecrated and used temples and monasteries as strongholds.
- During the retreat, the Ukrainian Armed Forces mined approaches to buildings, cemeteries, and agricultural fields. Magnetic antipersonnel mines with a cluster warhead were scattered from unmanned aerial vehicles to destroy civilian vehicles.
- The FSB has opened criminal cases under Part 3 of Article 322 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation against journalists from the United States (Nick Payton Walsh), France (Catherine Norris Trent) and Switzerland (Kurt Pelda), Ukrainian correspondents Olesya Nikolaevna Borovik and Diana Vladimirovna Butsko and Italian journalists Simoni Traini and Stephanie Battistini for illegally crossing the border.
Assistance to victims
- The federal budget has allocated 1.5 billion rubles to compensate for rental housing for residents of the Kursk region, and almost 20 thousand families receive the payment.
- The draft program for the restoration of the affected areas will be submitted to the Russian government by July 1, said Alexander Khinshtein, acting head of the region.
