"All under control": the offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Kursk region stopped - commandant

This was stated in an interview with AFP on September 18 by a spokesman for a military commandant in the region, Colonel Alexei Dmitrashkivsky, as reported in Arabiya News. In Russia, it was stated that several settlements were allegedly returned under the offensive of the Armed Forces in Kurshchyna. Dmitryashkivsky said that enemy fighters tried to attack the flanks, but stopped there. "The situation has stabilized and today all under control, they have not succeeded," the spokesman assured.

He confirmed that Russian troops have "some minor successes. " "The Russians entered one of the settlements. They started the struggle for another settlement, but everything was there," Dmitrashkivsky said. He said that there are "several thousand" civilians in the controlled territories of Russia. The Russian Federation informed that about 130,000 citizens fled.

According to the representative of the commandant, 23 civilian Russians were killed in the Kursk region alone as a result of attacks by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. According to him, citizens of the aggressor country "die with the Ukrainian military. " He said that it is forbidden to go to control the situation, but they can move under the control of the territory. In particular, residents of Kursk region are free to visit each other, help neighbors to get in the garden and so on.

Dmitryashkivsky explained that the territory controlled by the Armed Forces in the Kursk region is wooded and mainly rural small settlements. Food from neighboring Sumy region is brought to the region, because there is nothing work there, including grocery stores. "The Sumy Regional State Administration allocates funds for bread weekly. The armed forces provide water, the administration - product kits," the spokesman said.