WATCH: Ukraine’s Steel Border Unit Repels Russian Assault in Kursk, Eliminates Two Soldiers
WATCH: Ukraine’s Steel Border Unit Repels Russian Assault in Kursk, Eliminates Two Soldiers
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WATCH: Ukraine’s Steel Border Unit Repels Russian Assault in Kursk, Eliminates Two Soldiers

Kateryna Zakharchenko 🕒︎ 2025-10-22

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WATCH: Ukraine’s Steel Border Unit Repels Russian Assault in Kursk, Eliminates Two Soldiers

Ukrainian border guards said Sunday their forces repelled another failed Russian assault in the Kursk sector, killing two enemy soldiers with a precise artillery strike. The State Border Guard Service reported on Telegram that fighters from its Steel Border unit opened fire as Russian troops attempted a small-arms attack to storm Ukrainian positions. A video released by the service shows the moment of the strike and the enemy fighters being neutralized. “Yesterday, our fighters eliminated two Russian soldiers who were engaged in small-arms combat and attempted to storm our positions,” the Border Guard Service said. State Border Guard Service remains an integral part of Ukraine’s defense forces, actively countering the aggression of Russian troops along the northern front. Kursk has been a flashpoint since August 2024, when Ukraine launched a surprise incursion across the border, briefly seizing over 1,000 square kilometers (390 square miles) of territory. Russian troops have since retaken most of that ground, aided by reinforcements from North Korea. In May 2025, President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed Russia had lost more than 63,000 soldiers in fighting around Kursk. At the end of June, Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky rejected Moscow’s claims that Kyiv’s foothold in the region had been eliminated. He said Ukrainian forces still hold about 90 square kilometers (35 square miles) in the Glushkovsky district, calling it a preemptive operation to disrupt a potential Russian offensive. According to Syrsky, Ukrainian actions in April 2025 prevented Moscow from deploying roughly 60,000 troops – including airborne and marine units – to reinforce other frontline sectors such as Pokrovsk, Toretsk, and Zaporizhzhia. By July, Syrsky confirmed that Ukrainian troops had restored and were maintaining defensive positions inside Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions. “I emphasized the restoration of positions and our continued presence in the Kursk and Belgorod regions of the Russian Federation. We are containing a large enemy force near the border. The enemy will have no peace there,” Syrsky wrote.

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