The commander of the private military company Bear, Viktor Ermolaev, has announced that the unit will relocate from Burkina Faso to the Kursk region. This update was reported by The Monde.
Emphasizing a spirit of unity, Ermolaev urged all Russian soldiers to set aside internal quarrels and come together to confront the shared threat.
The report notes that Bear is set to deploy one hundred fighters to the Kursk area. After completing their assignments there, the contingent is expected to return to Africa.
Earlier, Major General Apty Alaudinov, deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces and commander of Akhmat special forces, indicated that Russian units had routed a battalion from the 80th separate air assault brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Kursk direction.
Previously, another ministry statement claimed that Russian troops disrupted enemy manpower and equipment concentrations in sixteen settlements within the Kursk region.
Independent tallies from the same briefing show Ukrainian forces sustaining losses in the Kursk direction over the course of the day, with figures indicating more than three hundred eighty servicemen taking casualties.
There have also been reports from police authorities about retaliatory actions by the Ukrainian armed forces against residents of the Kursk region.