At a press conference on August 11, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the Sever Group of Forces (Russia), supported by airstrikes and artillery, had prevented several attempts by the Ukrainian army to advance near the settlements of Tolpino, Zhuravli and Obshchiy Kolodez in the past 24 hours.

Four armored personnel carriers, including three US-made Strykers, seven armored fighting vehicles and two motor vehicles were destroyed.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian airstrikes also inflicted heavy losses on the Ukrainian 22nd, 41st and 115th Mechanized Brigades as well as the 80th and 82nd Air Assault Brigades near the settlements of Staraya Sorochnitsa, Korenevo, Sudzha and Borki; it also said that 35 Ukrainian soldiers, five tanks, four armored fighting vehicles and three motor vehicles were disabled.

In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry added that a Ukrainian breakthrough attempt towards the Belovsky district was thwarted. Two tanks, an armored fighting vehicle, a field artillery piece and two ammunition trucks were destroyed near Ozerki and Ivanovo, according to information shared by the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the Russian military also destroyed a Buk-M1 medium-range air defense system of Kiev forces near the Lyubimovka settlement with an Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile; it added that three launchers and an AN/MPQ-65 radar station of the US-made MIM-104 Patriot long-range air defense system were destroyed near the Lebedin settlement in Ukraine's Sumy region.

Moreover, Kiev's reserve forces in the Sumy region were also targeted by Russian air and missile strikes.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian air defense forces also shot down four Tochka-U tactical ballistic missiles and 14 drones in the skies over Kursk.

Tochka-U is a Soviet short-range tactical ballistic missile system, developed based on its predecessor Tochka. The missile is 6.4 m long; launch weight 2,010 kg. This missile system is designed to destroy important targets in enemy combat formations such as missile launch sites, airports, command posts, air defense units, artillery batteries and other small targets.

"Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost more than 230 servicemen and 38 armored vehicles, including seven tanks, three Stryker armored personnel carriers, one infantry fighting vehicle, 28 armored fighting vehicles, as well as seven motor vehicles, four field guns, three launchers and one AN/MPQ-65 radar station of the US-made Patriot air defense missile system," the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"Since the start of fighting in the Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost 29 tanks, 23 armored personnel carriers, nine infantry fighting vehicles, 116 armored fighting vehicles, 20 motor vehicles, three launchers and one AN/MPQ-65 radar station of the US-made Patriot air defense missile system, one launcher of the Grad multiple launch rocket system and ten field guns," the report added.

The Russian Defense Ministry also released videos showing several recent missile and suicide drone strikes against Kiev forces in Kursk and Sumy.

HOA AN (According to SF)