[Korrespondent] 22:16 Zelensky said in an evening video address that he had heard Syrsky's report: "And on the situation in eastern Ukraine, and on the operation in the Kursk region, and on the exchange fund, on the staffing of our brigades - the staffing of our reserves: this includes shells and weapons. In all areas, our guys - you are great. But we need to speed up the supplies from our partners. We are asking for it. War has no vacations. We need solutions, we need timely logistics for the announced packages. I am especially addressing the United States, Great Britain, and France now."
The president also reported on "good, necessary results in the destruction of Russian equipment near Toretsk." "And all this is more than protection for Ukraine, this is now the main task of our defense actions in general - to destroy as much Russian potential, war potential, as possible, and to carry out maximum counterattack work. In particular, this is the creation of a buffer zone on the territory of the aggressor - our operation in the Kursk region."
18:25 Due to a shortage of personnel, the Russian command has transferred Aerospace Forces servicemen who were written off as motorized riflemen to defend the Kursk region, writes the Russian publication Vazhiye Istorii. According to its information, a motorized rifle regiment of Aerospace Forces servicemen was created in May-June for the border cover group.
The VKS infantry arrived in the border areas several weeks before the Ukrainian Armed Forces raid in mid-July. They were assigned to the infantry from the Ukrainka airfields in the Altai region, Belaya in the Irkutsk region, and Engels in the Saratov region. All of these airbases are home to heavy Tu-22M or Tu-95 bombers, which launch missiles at Ukrainian cities. There are also servicemen from one of the Russian spaceports, special VKS personnel, and personnel from the Voronezh radar stations. These stations are deployed along Russia's borders to prevent a nuclear strike.
17:58 North Korea condemned the Ukrainian Armed Forces' offensive in the Kursk region and called it "an unforgivable act of aggression and terror." Thus, the DPRK became the second country to directly condemn the Ukrainian Armed Forces' offensive on Russian territory. The first was Syria, which on August 10 called the Ukrainian offensive a "terrorist attack."
11:04 Air Force Commander Nikolai Oleshchuk confirmed that aviation destroyed another bridge in the Kursk region and showed a video:
09:03 In the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces damaged the second bridge across the Seim River - in the village of Zvannoye, Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels report and publish photos. Supplies to Russian units in the Kursk direction were carried across this bridge. Earlier, as a result of an attack, a bridge in neighboring Glushkovo collapsed. Thus, in the Glushkovsky district, the only bridge left is in the village of Karyzh, "after the obvious imminent destruction of which, supplies to the group of the Russian Armed Forces defending the region (in particular, the border Tetkino) will fall on pontoons and boats," notes one of the Russian military publics.