The military advances that each of the parties in conflict presume remain without neutral confirmation.
▲ Ukrainian servicemen from the 12th Azov Special Forces Brigade of the National Guard hug their fellow soldiers after being freed from Russian captivity at an undisclosed location near the border with Belarus.Afp Photo
Juan Pablo Duch
Correspondent
The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 15, 2024, p. 21
Moscow. Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners of war on Saturday on a 103 x 103 basis, the third exchange since the start of Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, where both sides reported attacks and counterattacks, with the heaviest fighting around Glushkovo and Korenevo.
The UAE played a key mediation role in the exchange, which follows the release of 49 soldiers by each side the day before. There have been no prisoner exchanges since late August, when 115 Russians and the same number of Ukrainians were released.
Moscow said that soldiers captured in the Kursk region had returned, and kyiv said, through its human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, that they had returned Many of those who had been in captivity since the early days of the war.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it had repelled five attempts by Ukrainian troops to cross the border in the previous 24 hours, but pro-Kremlin channels claim that reinforcements from Ukraine entered two days ago and, according to Deep State, Ukraine’s main unofficial source on what is happening on the front lines, They occupied Vetreno, Durovka and partially Zhuravli.
Ukrainian drone unit Jorne Group claims it entered Russian territory from a new border location and was able to advance kilometers within RussiaAs evidence, they posted a video on Telegram showing Ukrainian troops allegedly in the vicinity of the town of Veseloye.
The Dos Mayores channel, which supports the special military operation He acknowledged tonight (Saturday) that The enemy is fortifying itself in Veseloyewhile Rybar, close to Russian military intelligence, reports that the Ukrainians use the town of Novy Put as an intermediate point where their assault units prepare to enter into war action in Veseloye.
The intensity of the fighting, according to the Veteran’s Notes channel It is comparable to the fighting in the first days of the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk..
According to official information from Moscow, The counteroffensive of our army continued, defeating Ukrainian troops in areas near the towns of Liubimovka, Daryno, Nikolayevo-Daryno and Pokrovsky.These small towns are located to the east of the conventional line of their counteroffensive.
Kremlin reinforcements in Kursk region
Vadim Misnyk, spokesman for the Siver tactical-operational group of the Ukrainian army, said yesterday that Russia had about 11,000 troops when Operation Bagration (code name for the Ukrainian incursion) began on August 6, and now, according to various estimates, it has moved between 30,000 and 45,000 soldiers from other fronts to try to stop our offensive.. The Russian military department reported last Thursday the release of 10 localities: Apanasovka, Viajovo, Vi-shnievska, Viktorovka, Vnezapnoye, Gordeyevka, Krasnooktiabrskoye, Obujovka, Snagost and Oktiabr-10.
However, there are experts who doubt the truth of this information, mentioning for example that Gordeyevka is on the border itself and it would mean that the Russian army managed to advance 23 kilometers south of Korenevo in two days, but so far there are no videos or photographs to confirm this.
The US Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which provides daily maps of where it records fighting based on geolocated images, said it had so far found evidence of a Russian presence only in Snagost and Krasnooktiabrskoye. But on other fronts, ISW detected gradual progress of Russian troops east of Toretsk and southeast of Pokrovsk, as well as southeast of Chasiv Yar.
In its evening report, the Ukrainian military command said that its units repelled Russian attacks in the Kurakhov area 27 times on Saturday.