Yesterday, Ukraine launched another counteroffensive in Kursk Oblast, this time from the southeastern part of the Kursk salient. They captured two villages as well as other surrounding positions.
At some point before this offensive, they cleared the eastern residential area of Makhnovka to secure a path to the next villages over.
As many as 50 Ukrainian armoured vehicles and tanks that were concentrated in Sumy Oblast moved from Makhnovka in multiple waves, punching through Russian lines to the southeast. They advanced in two main directions, towards Ulanok, and towards Cherkasskaya Konopelka.
The first attack took place towards Ulanok, where Ukrainian forces advanced south to positions in the forest plantations in the low-lying ground. Ukrainian infantry dismounted and took up positions there. More armoured vehicles and tanks then conducted a second attack to the west, attempting to break through to Ulanok.
Russian soldiers were forced to withdraw from the treeline northwest of Ulanok, and made a stand at the village. The Ukrainian attack on Ulanok was repelled by Russian fiber-optic FPV drones, and Russian artillery and airstrikes covered the Ukrainian infantry that abandoned their vehicles.
Once Ukrainian forces had secured positions east of Cherkasskaya Konopelka in those forest plantations, succesfully bypassing the village, another Ukrainian column advanced from Makhnovka, down the road to Cherkasskaya Konopelka. Due to bad weather conditions, Russian FPV drones struggled to hit their targets, which resulted in a withdrawal of Russian formations from the village.
Ukrainian armoured vehicles entered the village, infantry dismounted taking up positions in the houses, and the rest of the armoured vehicles, likely including new reinforcements from Sudzha, continued their advance to the southwest. They were then able to seize the village of Fanaseevka, and Ukrainian infantry reportedly dismounted into the forest east of the village, possible to attack Ulanok from the southwest in the future.
+ ~10.4km² in favour of Ukraine.
