.Russia's counteroffensive to take back Ukrainian-held territory in the north western Kursk location has been actually "quit," a spokesman from Ukraine's armed forces management in the area informed AFP Wednesday.Previously, Russia's Protection Department claimed it had taken back numerous towns coming from Ukraine in the Kursk area. Kyiv has actually so far held on to sizable swathes of Russian area considering that introducing its surprise attack in early August." They made an effort to attack from the flanks, yet they were quit there certainly," spokesperson Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky said to AFP. "The scenario was maintained as well as today everything is actually in control, they were not successful.".However, Dmytrashkivsky accepted that Russian powers had found "some slight results" along with their counteroffensive. "The Russians got into one of the resolutions. They started fighting for one more resolution, however that was it.".He also stated there were actually "numerous many thousand" Russian civilians in regions taken up through Ukrainian troops. "In some resolutions, there are much more than one hundred individuals, much more than 200, greater than five hundred.".In late August, Russian authorizations mentioned around 20,000 individuals remained in places of the Kursk region stored through Ukrainian powers. On the whole, greater than 150,000 folks staying in neighborhoods near the borderline have been compelled to expel their homes.Dmytrashkivsky additionally declared that Russian strikes targeted at repossessing its territory have eliminated "23 private citizens" due to the fact that the end of August, claiming they are "passing away along with the Ukrainian armed force.".According to him, civilians are actually "certainly not allowed to leave behind" since "the condition needs to be managed." Nevertheless, he stated, they are enabled to "move around" the region as well as can easily "check out one another, consume, gather someplace, dig potatoes, operate in the landscape.".Dmytrashkivsky mentioned that civilians may be permitted to leave for Russian-controlled region in case Ukraine as well as Russia "concur, by means of worldwide organizations that manage these concerns, to open an environment-friendly hallway under the direction of onlookers.".Previously this week, Kyiv asked the United Nations and also the International Board of the Red Cross to monitor the situation in places of Russia's Kursk its forces control.Dmytrashkivsky said that meals is actually carried right into those locations from northeastern Ukraine's Sumy location. "The Sumy regional management assigns funds for breadstuff on an every week manner. The armed forces supply water, the management give out meals deals."." Absolutely nothing operates certainly there, no stores, no pharmacy, nothing at all," he added.