[Korrespondent] 20:59 Air Force Commander Nikolai Oleshchuk showed footage of the destruction of a bridge in the Kusk region:
19:38 Kursk Region Head Alexey Smirnov confirmed that the automobile bridge across the Seim River in the Glushkovsky District was destroyed as a result of a strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Meanwhile, Russian Telegram channels write that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are striking another bridge across the Seim - in the village of Zvannoye.
19:30 In Sudzha, Kursk region of the Russian Federation, a monument to Lenin was torn down. The photo was published by the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, Darya Zarivnaya:
19:24 Ukrainian troops continue to advance in the Kursk region, today they have advanced 1-3 km in different areas, Syrsky reported to Zelensky. Also, according to him, the replenishment of the exchange fund continues, there are battles near the settlement of Malaya Loknya.
19:09 The Kursk operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been going on for ten days now, but so far one of its key tasks - to force Russia to redeploy troops from other parts of the front - has not been accomplished. The situation on the eastern front - in particular in the area of ​​Krasnogorovka, Chasov Yar and other parts of Donbas - remains extremely difficult for Ukrainian forces. For more details, see the article The Ukrainian Armed Forces Are Having a Hard Time in Donbas .
17:51 The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed the bridge over the Seim River in the Kursk region by firing several Himars missiles at the crossing, Russian publics write. According to them, one of the munitions hit a minibus with "volunteers" - two were killed, one was wounded. Telegram channels write that as a result of the destruction of the bridge, part of the Glushkovsky district is now cut off - this is Tetkino, Popovo-Lezhachi, Wolfino and about 27 other settlements. The civilian population can now only be evacuated by water.
17:18 In occupied Mariupol, they plan to place "refugees" from the Kursk region in "ownerless" housing, the city council reported. At the same time, thousands of families are still waiting for the compensation housing promised by the occupiers.
15:33 Journalists from the We-Ukraine TV channel visited Sudzha in the Kursk region and showed footage of a destroyed Gazprom gas distribution station. The journalists also spoke with local residents, who confirmed the good attitude of the Ukrainian military towards the Russians who remained in the city.
15:24 A month before the Kursk operation, some Ukrainian fighters were sent to Britain, where they underwent several days of training together with British soldiers, The Times writes. The main focus of the training was raids on high-rise buildings. However, preparations for the offensive "were shrouded in secrecy." This not only caught Russia by surprise, but also "came as a shock" to many high-ranking military officials in Kiev, the newspaper notes.
11:52 Bild open data analysis expert Julian Repke writes that the area of ​​the Ukrainian Armed Forces' presence in the Kursk region is expanding. He published a map on which the territories that have partially or completely come under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the past two or three days are highlighted in blue. "The Ukrainian army's offensive in the Kursk region continues. For more than a week, on the ninth day, Russia has not yet managed to stop the Ukrainian advance," the analyst notes. At the same time, he added that Russian troops are currently advancing in the direction of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.
10:34 Ukraine is free to use tanks, armored vehicles and other equipment donated by Canada at its own discretion, including on Russian territory, said the country's Defense Ministry spokesperson Andre-Anne Poulin: "Ukrainians know best how to defend their homeland, and we are committed to supporting their capabilities... Canada has no geographic restrictions on the use of the military equipment that we donate to Ukraine." According to her, Canada has donated eight Leopard 2A4 tanks, several dozen armored combat support vehicles and hundreds of armored patrol vehicles, as well as several M-777 howitzers to Ukraine.
09:10 Z-publics write that another large column of the Russian Armed Forces has been destroyed near Korenev in the Kursk region. They claim that "exactly the same thing happened as near Rylsk" and blame the military command for this.
08:49 The General Staff showed the first hours of the operation in the Kursk region. "Demining, breaking through the border, destroying the enemy's defensive lines, the work of aviation, artillery, prisoners. The first hours of the offensive operation of the Defense Forces in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation on August 6, 2024. A day that will go down in the history of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Careful preparation, planning, surprise, fighting spirit and information silence became decisive at the initial stage of the operation," the General Staff said.
07:01 A video is published on social networks in which fighters from the Nachtigall battalion communicate with local residents of the Kursk region, and in response they hear the Ukrainian language:
05:24 The US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that Russian forces are maintaining a relatively high tempo of advance in the Donetsk region, demonstrating that the military command continues to prioritize advances in eastern Ukraine despite the Ukrainian Armed Forces' advance in the Kursk region. There is no sign of significant Russian forces being deployed there.
04:12 Russia is still trying to formulate a response to Ukraine's operation in the Kursk region, but so far this response is "slow and scattered," said NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Christopher Cavoli. In his opinion, Russia's response is due to several factors: firstly, the lack of understanding of who is responsible for the fighting inside Russia, and secondly, the lack of freed-up troops that Russia can use to counter the operation in Kursk.
01:58 The United States still does not want to give Ukraine permission to use long-range weapons in the Kursk region, but the reason is not a possible escalation, CNN reports, citing several officials. According to them, the issue is that the United States has a limited supply of long-range ATACMS missiles for delivery to Ukraine, so Washington believes that they are better used to continue attacks on Crimea.