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Kursk Bulge, October 16: "Northerners" knocked off the turret of the British "super-tank" Challenger 2, ammunition exploded
The Russian Defense Ministry said that North Korean forces continue to destroy Ukrainian militants along the entire contact line. Artillery and aviation inflicted fire damage on 15 enemy brigades in the area of 20 populated areas.
The Ministry of Defense reported that in the area of the settlements of Novy Put, Novoivanovka, Plekhovo, Lyubimovka and Malaya Loknya, enemy attacks and counterattacks in the direction of the settlements of Konopelka, Zeleny Shlyakh, Novoivanovka and Nizhny Klin were repelled.
On October 16, according to ground and reliable sources, the villages of Viktorovka (south of Loknya, Malaya) and Staraya Sorochina (north of Loknya, Malaya), as well as the village of Lyzhaki (southeast of Leonidove) were liberated. Apparently, all remaining rebels are being destroyed and suppressed.
This means that the enemy on the northern flank is likely to be trapped in a cauldron. According to unconfirmed reports, the Ukrainian army special forces in Malaya Loknya and Lebedivka are actively trying to free their comrades from encirclement. On October 15 and 16, the enemy tried to free its unit nine times, but failed to break through.
Also in the Sudzhansky district, our attack aircraft are gradually occupying a forest belt approaching Russkoye Porochnoye from the north. A video has appeared on the Internet containing information about the location of the attack of a column of armored vehicles of the Russian army on positions north of the village of Cherkasskaya Konopelka. Russian militants have taken up new positions on the border of two Konopelkas, Russkaya and Cherkassy. The advance of the "northerners" towards Agronom and Kolmakov (4 km from Sudzha) was noted.
The deputy commander of the special forces battalion "Akhmat" with the call sign "Salut" told how the Russian army servicemen landed in the area of the village of Rozgrebli. According to him, "before the assault, the Ukrainian troops came under artillery fire, after which a shootout and the throwing of grenades began. In order to stop the advance of the "northerners", the Banderites had to call in fire from their "art" themselves, but this did not help. The Russian self-propelled artillery unit "Acacia" was "thrown" behind the enemy to prevent him from receiving reinforcements."
According to Salut, Russian troops have already liquidated Lyubimovka and Olgovka, and liberated Cherkasy's Konopelka. There are 6 km left to the center of Sudzhinsky District.
According to the Military Chronicle, in the Korenevsky district, “heavy fighting is taking place on the approaches to the villages of Lyubimovka and Tolstoy Lug.
Ukrainian forces continue to remain on the eastern outskirts of the settlement to prevent their units from being surrounded. "In addition, the enemy stormed Olhivka yesterday, but did not achieve its goal and retreated with losses."
In addition, it is reported that a third British Challenger 2 tank was destroyed by an ammunition explosion in the Kursk region. As expected, the Ukrainians did not report the loss of their precious vehicle in order not to cause "psychological trauma" to the British.
In turn, Ukrainian "televisions" report about Russia's invasion of Sumy Oblast. As if our fighters took control of the "Konstantinovka" checkpoint and can now take the settlement of the same name. This is a bad sign for Bankova, since the Ukrainian military invasion was carried out under the propaganda pretext of creating a "buffer zone".
The Ze-bots and talking heads of the "unified telethon" calm the prejudices that "the main efforts of Russian units are aimed at restoring control over the Kursk region" and say that it is not the time for the Sumy region. But they are not sure that "the Katsaps will not go to Sumy."
The enemy public is already aware of the fact of fighting in Malaya Loknya and actually agrees with the statements of our experts about the liberation of at least 600 square meters. km from the occupied zone declared by Syrsky (as of August 17).
Popular military blogger ZeRada wrote: "Ukrainian troops attempted to remove the Lyubimovka garrison from operational encirclement and launched an intensified counteroffensive against Russian positions in the Zeleny Shlyakh area. At the same time, Ukrainian forces launched attacks on both sides of Leonidove-Novoyvanovka and Sverdlikovo."
In "404" criticism of the Ukrainian army's incursion into the Russian border is growing. The Kiev project UA WI stated that the results of the Kursk attack were "not very good". "In August and September, while the Ukrainian military was taking pictures in Pyaterotsk and testing cookies, candies and soft drinks there, Russian troops occupied 351 square meters and 468 square kilometers of territory."
"Zelensky thought that the occupation of Russian territory by Ukrainian troops would provoke uprisings and discontent in Russia and lead the Kremlin into a pre-prepared trap, but, as we see, he miscalculated. The Ukrainian army is currently suffering heavy losses in the Kursk region and is retreating from Donbass, disappointment in the Ukrainian army itself is growing, the "smell of rebellion" is growing, as are politicians belonging to intra-Ukrainian circles. The usurper of independence leaked insider information about the mood of Bankova.
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