.Russia's counteroffensive to retake Ukrainian-held territory in the southwestern Kursk area has actually been "stopped," a speaker from Ukraine's armed forces administration in the area said to AFP Wednesday.Previously, Russia's Protection Ministry mentioned it had actually taken back many towns coming from Ukraine in the Kursk location. Kyiv has actually thus far hung on to large swathes of Russian area considering that launching its surprise attack in very early August." They made an effort to assault from the flanks, yet they were actually stopped certainly there," representative Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky informed AFP. "The situation was supported as well as today everything is actually in control, they were actually not prosperous.".However, Dmytrashkivsky confessed that Russian forces had found "some minor success" with their counteroffensive. "The Russians got in one of the settlements. They began defending one more resolution, yet that was it.".He additionally mentioned there were actually "many 1000" Russian civilians in locations taken up by Ukrainian troops. "In some resolutions, there are actually greater than 100 individuals, more than 200, greater than five hundred.".In late August, Russian authorities stated around 20,000 people continued to be in places of the Kursk region stored through Ukrainian pressures. Overall, much more than 150,000 people staying in neighborhoods near the border have actually been actually pushed to evacuate their homes.Dmytrashkivsky also professed that Russian strikes intended for taking back its area have killed "23 civilians" due to the fact that the end of August, claiming they are "passing away along with the Ukrainian military.".According to him, private citizens are actually "certainly not enabled to leave behind" since "the condition needs to be handled." Nonetheless, he pointed out, they are enabled to "walk around" the region and can easily "check out one another, consume, collect somewhere, dig potatoes, function in the garden.".Dmytrashkivsky claimed that private citizens could be enabled to leave for Russian-controlled region on the occasion that Ukraine as well as Russia "agree, via international associations that handle these issues, to open up a green hallway under the guidance of onlookers.".Previously recently, Kyiv asked the United Nations and the International Board of the Reddish Cross to monitor the situation in areas of Russia's Kursk its troops control.Dmytrashkivsky said that food is carried in to those areas coming from northeastern Ukraine's Sumy region. "The Sumy local management assigns funds for breadstuff on an once a week basis. The armed forces provide water, the management hands out meals packages."." Absolutely nothing operates certainly there, no outlets, no drug store, nothing," he included.