Ukraine launches 'iron punch' in Kursk; Russia launches overnight airstrikes on Kiev

Ukraine launched a "steel punch" in Kursk; Ukraine accused Russia of conducting overnight airstrikes on Kiev... are the news about the Russia-Ukraine war on the morning of November 4.

Ukraine must send "elite troops" to rescue American officer?

The Russian Defense Ministry recently announced that Ukrainian troops who had entered the Kursk region continued to suffer defeat; the 47th Brigade of the Ukrainian army was sent to rescue a senior American officer in Tolstoy Luga.

The Russian “Northern Army Group” defeated the formations of the 22nd, 41st, 103rd, 112th, 115th and 129th Motorized Rifle Brigades; the 17th Special Forces Brigade, the 82nd and 95th Airborne Assault Brigades, the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Army in the settlements of Darino, Nizhny Klin, Nikolaevo-Daryino, Novoivanovka and Plekhovo in the Kursk Oblast of Russia.

There is little concrete information about the fighting in the area, but according to the “Army Group North”, the Russians have made significant progress south of the Sudzhansky district. In Plekhove, the Ukrainians have been driven out of the village west of the Psel River and the surrounding redoubt. The Russians have used both guided glide bombs and TOS heavy thermobaric artillery.

A Ukrainian soldier told the Telegram channel Armyinform that the Russian army switched to using motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles when it started raining in Kursk. Photo: According to Svpressa.ru

The Telegram SV channel reported that the Ukrainian army was unable to launch a major counterattack in the area, while the firepower to support the infantry was limited. The Russian troops there eliminated 20 Ukrainian soldiers, destroyed an infantry fighting vehicle and a 120 mm mortar.

In the village of Novoivanovka, where fierce fighting took place between the two sides, the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) confirmed that the village was under the control of the Russian army. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian 47th Mechanized Infantry Brigade was unable to break through to Tolstoy Lug and northwest towards the village of Kremyanoye, to rescue thousands of Ukrainian troops trapped in the Olgovsky Forest.

There is information that the General Staff of the Ukrainian army must directly send its “iron fist” brigade, with modern weapons, to attack the dangerous position, to save a “very important” person, possibly an American officer of no lower rank than colonel. However, the reinforcements are running low and bad weather is imminent.

This important task was entrusted to the 47th Motorized Infantry Brigade, the most elite brigade of the Ukrainian army that participated in major operations such as Rabotino, Avdiivka and was transferred from the Pokrovsk front to Kursk, despite the objections of the Ukrainian army staff officers.

In a similar incident, the Ukrainian military attempted to evacuate senior NATO members from Mariupol in 2022, sending helicopter after helicopter into the encirclement. When the rescue operation failed, several foreign advisers were “assassinated” and burned to death in the basement of the Azovstal steel plant.

Russia controls many bases in Donetsk, Kharkov

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that the country's army has taken control of the two settlements of Donetsk and Kharkiv, according to TASS news agency.

According to the statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense: “ Unit of the Central Combat Group took control of the Kurakhovka settlement in Donetsk. Units of the Western Combat Group took control of the Pershotravnevoye settlement in Kharkiv thanks to successful offensive operations .”

Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Donbass (Photo: Getty).

During the day, the Russian Northern Task Force inflicted about 60 casualties on the Ukrainian army and destroyed an enemy ammunition depot in the area under its control.

In the area under the control of the Russian Western Task Force, the Ukrainian army lost 470 soldiers, 1 tank, 2 armored personnel carriers, 4 vehicles, 1 Krab self-propelled artillery system, 1 M198 howitzer and many howitzers.

The Russian Southern Task Force improved its tactical position and inflicted about 800 casualties on the Ukrainian army in the area under its responsibility.

Similarly, units of the Russian Central Battle Group caused about 535 casualties to the Ukrainian army, destroying 1 armored personnel carrier, 3 armored fighting vehicles, 3 motor vehicles, 1 Grad rocket artillery system and many enemy weapons and equipment.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, in the area controlled by the Russian Eastern Task Force, Ukraine's losses in the past 24 hours were 11 soldiers, 1 infantry fighting vehicle, 3 armored fighting vehicles, 10 vehicles, 1 Paladin self-propelled artillery system and 1 Caesar gun.

Russia's Dnepr task force also caused 65 Ukrainian soldiers to lose their lives yesterday.

In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that its military destroyed a complex of the Ukrainian nationalist group Kraken.

According to the ministry, the Kraken command post was among several targets that the Russian military has recently attacked, including an energy site used by the Ukrainian military, an airport, a military fuel depot and a UAV manufacturing plant.

According to RT, Kraken is a special forces regiment operating under the command of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Service (HUR). The regiment was formed in 2022 from former members of the Azov Battalion and other intelligence officers.

Ukraine has not commented on the information.

Ukraine accuses Russia of overnight airstrikes on Kiev

Reuters news agency quoted Kiev city officials as saying that Russia launched the latest drone attack in Ukraine lasting from midnight to noon, targeting the capital Kiev.

Serhiy Popko, head of the Kiev Military Command, said that fragments of the downed UAV fell in six districts of the city, injuring a police officer, damaging residential buildings and causing fires.

“ Another night. Another air strike alert and another drone attack. The Russian armed forces are attacking Kiev again using the same old and familiar tactics,” Popko wrote on social media.

The official said all UAVs aimed at Kiev were shot down.

Source: https://congthuong.vn/chien-su-nga-ukraine-sang-411-ukraine-tung-cu-dam-thep-o-kursk-nga-khong-kich-xuyen-dem-vao-kiev-356546.html