BBC confirms footage of destroyed Russian military column filmed near Rylsk, Kursk Oblast
The BBC Russian
service Verify confirmed on Aug. 9 that the video showing a destroyed Russian
convoy was filmed near Oktyabrskoye village, close to Rylsk in Kursk Oblast,
and verified its authenticity.
The video was posted online earlier on Aug. 9. The footage shows more than ten pieces of burnt-out Russian military equipment, mostly trucks, as well as the bodies of soldiers. The author of the video claims to have filmed it in the village of Oktyabrske.
Russian Z-bloggers also reported about the destroyed military convoy, allegedly after the Ukrainian army strike.
OSINT analysts assumed that the site of the strike was 30 kilometers from the border and 20 kilometers from Koreneve, the nearest point where, according to Russian pro-war bloggers, fighting is taking place.
Kursk Oblast raid
Russian propagandists on Aug. 6 reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly entered Suzhansky district of Kursk Oblast. Local news outlets reported advance of three Ukrainian Armed Forces tanks with infantry toward the villages of Kurylivka and Honcharivka. Kursk Oblast authorities claimed that the "breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces" had been stopped.
Later, Russian Ministry of Defense, confirmed the fighting in the region. The head of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, claimed that Ukraine entered Russia with about 1,000 troops, using Western Stryker armored vehicles and tanks, as well as UAVs, air defense systems and electronic warfare equipment.
The Ukrainian side has not officially commented on the events. NV's military intelligence source said that no Russian Volunteer Corps fighters were involved in the events on the border with Kursk Oblast.
The United States claims that it was not aware of Ukraine's plans to enter Kursk Oblast, but this does not contradict US policy.
Russian pro-war outlets claimed that fighting in Kursk Oblast was taking place about 26 kilometers from the border on Aug. 8. The Washington Post, citing an "adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy," wrote that Ukraine allegedly taken control of the Sudzha gas metering station in Kursk Oblast.
Russian media wrote that on Aug. 9, the Ukrainian Armed Forces burned a convoy of Russian military equipment near Rylsk, Kursk Oblast.
According to DeepState, on the first day of the raid alone, "Ukrainian forces" took three villages and surrounded the Sudzha checkpoint.
Kurchatov Mayor Igor Korpunkov on Aug. 9 said that the fighting was taking place several dozen kilometers from the city, where the Kursk nuclear power plant is located.
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