Moscow, Aug 21 (EFE).- More than 30 civilians have been killed and 140 injured in Russia’s Kursk region since Ukraine’s incursion two weeks ago, medical services said on Wednesday.
“As of the morning of August 21, 31 people have been confirmed dead as a result of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack on the Kursk region,” a spokesman for the medical services told official Russian news agency TASS.
Another “143 have received injuries of varying severity. Of these, 79 people have been hospitalized, including four children,” it added.
On Tuesday, Russian authorities had reported 17 dead and more than 140 wounded as a result of the Ukrainian offensive.
According to Kyiv, since Aug. 6 its troops have taken control of nearly 93 towns and more than 1,200 square kilometers of territory in the region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that one of the objectives of the offensive, which forced the evacuation of more than 122,000 people in Russia, is to create a buffer zone to prevent attacks on Ukrainian territory from Russian border areas. EFE
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