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Ukrainian Troops Are Digging Trenches In Russia’s Kursk Oblast. It’s A Sign They Plan To Stay.
Every day the Russians don’t counterattack is a day the Ukrainians dig in deeper.

On the sixth day of Ukraine’s advance into Kursk Oblast in southern Russia, there’s growing evidence the Ukrainian invasion corps—some or all of up to five 2,000-person brigades plus at least one 400-person independent battalion—plans to stay.

The Ukrainians are digging trenches. Anticipating static warfare along or near the existing front line, the Russians are digging in, too.

That both sides are fortifying their positions doesn’t mean the Ukrainians are done advancing. Nor does it mean the Russians can’t counterattack—and push the Ukrainians back to the border, 10 miles away.

But it does mean that stabilization of the front line—and a long-term Ukrainian occupation of part of Kursk—is on the table.

Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kharchenko observed Ukrainian forces digging trenches in Kursk on Sunday. He described it as “the worst thing that can happen,” according to a translation of his missive by Estonian analyst War Translated.

Ukrainian sources have spotted industrial excavators at work on both sides of the front line.

“Once the enemy picks up shovels, in two days it will be just as difficult to take the forest stands as it was near Avdiivka” in eastern Ukraine, Kharchenko added. It took the Russian military six months to roll back Ukrainian defenses in Avdiivka—and cost it tens of thousands of casualties.

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Was Ukraine's role in big Wagner defeat an own goal in Africa?

^{Tributes have been paid in Moscow to the Wagner fighters who died in northern Mali last month}

As Ukraine’s foreign minister completes his latest tour of Africa, his country risks paying a serious diplomatic price for helping separatist rebels in northern Mali inflict a severe defeat on the Russian military operator Wagner at the end of last month.

The ambush at Tinzaouten on 27 July reportedly killed 84 Wagner fighters and 47 Malian soldiers.

It was a painful military blow for the mercenary outfit once headed by the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, but now controlled by Russia’s official defence command structure.

Just two days later Andriy Yusov, spokesman for Kyiv’s military intelligence service (GUR), said that ethnic Tuareg rebels in Mali had “received necessary information, and not just information, which enabled a successful military operation against Russian war criminals”.

Subsequent reports suggested that Ukrainian special forces had trained the separatists in the use of attack drones.
Yet for many Africans, this was yet another case of outside powers exploiting the continent as a bloody playing field for their own rivalries.

Predictably, Mali’s ruling military junta, and the allied regime in neighbouring Niger, protested by breaking off diplomatic relations with Kyiv.

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Russia recycles old videos in attempt to show success against Ukraine's incursion, media reports
The Russian Defense Ministry published videos claiming to show successful strikes against Ukrainian forces in Kursk Oblast, but the videos were filmed in other locations and at other times, the Russian independent news outlet the Insider reported on Aug. 10.

The Ukrainian military launched a surprise incursion across the border on Aug. 6, bringing regular Ukrainian forces into Russia for the first time. Ukraine has continued to advance, triggering a state of emergency and "counter-terrorism operation" in Russia.

The Russian Defense Ministry and state-controlled media circulated videos that they alleged show Russian forces defeating Ukrainian troops in the region. A video published Aug. 9 claimed to show Russian troops carrying out strikes against the Ukrainian military in bordering Sumy Oblast in response to the Kursk incursion.

The video was in fact first posted weeks before the offensive, the Insider reported. The Russian state media outlet TASS published the video on July 14.

Another video published Aug. 10 by the Russian state outlet RIA Novosti claimed to show Russian helicopters striking Ukrainian personnel and armored vehicles in Kursk Oblast with S-13 airborne missiles.

The problem with this claim is that the video was filmed in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, according to the Insider. Screenshots of the defense ministry's videos show facilities and territories that recognizably belong to Chasiv Yar and Kreminna.

The day after Ukraine launched its offensive, Valery Gerasimov, Russia's commander of the war against Ukraine, said that Kyiv's attempts to push deep into Kursk Oblast were "stopped," and that "the operation will end with the rout of the enemy and the return to the state border."

While the Russian Defense Ministry has tried to downplay the effectiveness of Ukraine's incursion, it also admitted on Aug. 11 that Ukrainian forces had reached the villages Tolpino and Obshchy Kolodez, which are around 25 and 30 kilometers from the Russia-Ukraine border.

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Russia will teach children about "heroism" of their soldiers in Ukraine

^{Photo: Russian militant Motorola and propagandist Daria Dugina}

Starting 1 September, Russian schools will be teaching students about the "heroic deeds" of Russian soldiers in the war against Ukraine, as well as other figures regarded as heroes by the aggressor country.

Source: the Russian Ministry of Enlightenment (Ministry of Education), which has published a list of "war heroes" of the "special military operation", as the Russian Federation refers to its war in Ukraine

Details: The Russian list of "Our Heroes" features militant Arsen Pavlov, known as Motorola, who was blown up in a lift, and propagandist Daria Dugina, who was blown up in a car.

According to Russian media reports, the new curriculum has been made available on the Unified Content of General Education website.

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Russia continues to lose ground: Kursk breakthrough map as on evening of August 11
As of the evening of August 11, Russia continues to lose territory in the Kursk region. The area of combat operations has increased, according to the Russian Agenstvo news agency.

In particular, reports from the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian military blogs, and NASA satellite imagery indicate that the fighting in the Suzhansky district was conducted in approximately the same area as on Saturday. At the same time, the Russian authorities acknowledged that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had raided the neighboring Belovsk district.

The total area where the fighting took place on Sunday was up to 720 square kilometers. This is 70 square kilometers more than the previous day.

The farthest point from the border where the fighting took place was the village of General Well in Korenevo district (28 km from the border and all 9 km from the Lgov-Rylsk road). The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that "enemy mobile groups on armored vehicles that were trying to break through into Russia were stopped there".

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Russian military fired on an air assault brigade near the district center of Korenevo. NASA satellites recorded fires there.

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Netherlands donates 100 bicycles to community in Kherson region

Philanthropists from the Netherlands have donated 100 bicycles to the Novovorontsovka community in the Kherson region, which lacks transportation.
The Kherson Regional Military Administration announced this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"The Novovorontsovka community received 100 bicycles from the Netherlands for Ukraine initiative. Lack of transportation is a significant problem for local residents. Therefore, this assistance will greatly enhance the community's capacity," the statement said.

As noted, the bicycles are intended for use by teachers, doctors, volunteers and critical services workers, which will greatly facilitate their daily work and movement.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, USAID handed over vehicles for emergency repairs to gas distribution network operators in the Kherson region.

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Op maandag 12 augustus 2024 01:37 schreef Korenfok het volgende:
Geluiden dat Gerasimov is ontslagen en vervangen wordt door Hoofd-FSB: Alexander Bortnikov.

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Ukrainian BTR moving through Gir'i, Kursk

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Op zondag 11 augustus 2024 16:23 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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"Scheveningen, zeg Scheveningen!"

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Op maandag 12 augustus 2024 06:58 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
“What kind of emergency is it when there are foreign tanks on our land? This is already a real war.”

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Op maandag 12 augustus 2024 06:23 schreef AFA2022 het volgende:
Zelfs Vladimir Solovyov geeft eindelijk toe dat de Navo misschien toch een maatje te groot is, heb hem nog nooit zo down gezien lol. Dat moet de gemiddelde Rus toch niet echt geruststellen lijkt mij.

Als Rusland daadwerkelijk manschappen van het front weghaalt, is dit natuurlijk het moment om toe te slaan voor Oekraine. Hoor ook steeds meer geluiden dat er heel veel mercenaries uit westerse landen meevechten aan Oekrainse zijde tijdens de inval in Rusland, weet alleen niet of dit waarheid is.

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Op maandag 12 augustus 2024 01:37 schreef Korenfok het volgende:
Geluiden dat Gerasimov is ontslagen en vervangen wordt door Hoofd-FSB: Alexander Bortnikov.

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Op maandag 12 augustus 2024 10:30 schreef Korenfok het volgende:

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Heb je een linkje van hem... Zag geen filmpjes namelijk.

Vladimir Solovyov talks about Ukraine's counter-invasion of Kursk

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Early in the morning, Ukrainian formations launched an attack on the Kolotilovka international checkpoint in the Krasnoyaruzhsky district. Apparently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not abandoning plans to stretch our defensive formations, create the maximum number of points of tension and attempts to break through to the east in order to cut off Belgorod from the north.

The enemy set up a fire carousel, using several pieces of heavy equipment and simultaneously attempting to advance in small assault groups. Since half past eight in the morning, Russian Aerospace Forces aviation has been attacking enemy positions and moving reserves .

Against the backdrop of what was happening in the Kursk region, a strike on the neighboring area was, alas, only a matter of time - especially considering the unused enemy reserves pulled towards the Russian border.