On September 12, Russian forces began a counteroffensive in the Kursk region, which is currently under the control of Ukraine’s Armed Forces. The US Department of Defense confirmed the information about the attempted Russian counteroffensive, calling its scale “insignificant.”
Simultaneously, Ants Kiviselg, head of the Estonian Defense Forces Intelligence Center, stated that the Russian counteroffensive had little success. According to Kiviselg, Russia, as before, is conducting tactical offensive actions primarily in the Donetsk region in the direction of Pokrovsk, where almost a third of all battles take place.
According to the ISW, Russia has deployed additional units in the Kursk region and may begin redeploying more experienced combat units to support its current counterattacks and future counteroffensive operations. However, there are still no signs that Russian forces have launched a large-scale coordinated counter-offensive operation aimed at completely ousting Ukrainian forces from the Kursk region.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops recently broke through the Russian border in a new area of the Kursk region, but the scale of this operation remains small at this point.