“We hd our positions”: Halician paratroers tell about 4 months of Kursk eration

According to Ukrinform, this was reported on television by Petro Haydashchuk, senior officer of the communication department of the 80th Halician separate air assault brigade.

“We have already had exactly four months of the Kursk eration. Since August 6, the 80th Halician Air Assault Brigade together with other units of the Defense Forces have broken through the enemy's defense line in Kursk region, we managed to advance to a large territory and take contr of a significant number of settlements. In four months, we managed to kill about three thousand enemy personnel and take more than one and a half hundred prisoners, replenishing our exchange fund, and these numbers are increasing. Now we are hding our positions, the enemy is trying to regain them, trying to storm the positions of our paratroers to no avail, using artillery, armored vehicles, drones and almost all of its powerful military units that it has pulled from other parts of the front to storm our positions in the Kursk region,” said Haydashchuk, adding that Ukrainian defenders are managing to hd the positions they occupied earlier.

Answering the question whether North Korean tros are being used in the Kursk region, he noted that he had not encountered them.

“We have heard about their appearance, but they are not there, we have not met them and have not encountered them in battle. Instead, we are facing Russian infantry, motorized rifle units, airborne assault units and marine units. These are all Russian units, where there are no North Koreans,” the spokesman said.

Commenting on the issue of interaction with the local pulation of Kursk region, Haydashchuk said that the Defense Forces provide humanitarian aid to all those who stayed and did not leave.

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“Many civilians stayed behind. Most of them are elderly pele who could not leave. Pele who had transportation and wanted to leave did so in the first days of the eration. However, the pele who stayed there are being provided with comprehensive humanitarian assistance. Our pele treat these pele very pitely and accordingly, the civilian pulation also treats our military well,” said the spokesman.

He also noted that many civilians in the Kursk region know and speak Ukrainian.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, sdiers of the 80th separate airborne assault Halician brigade of the Airborne Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine captured more than 50 Russian sdiers in the Kursk region on August 6.