The Siversk Operational Tactical Group seized Kolmakov and Fanaseevka while Russian and North Korean forces paused to rotate exhausted units after losing 20,000 troops.
A converted shipping container in Ukraine's capital houses an unlikely solution to military recruitment: a drone training program so popular it turns away qualified applicants while other units struggle to fill their ranks.
Fifteen out of sixteen Russian attacks failed in Kursk Oblast on Saturday, with four more BMDs destroyed on routes where Ukrainian drones have dominated since November.
British WWII veterans might recognize Russia's latest innovation in Kursk: vehicles turned into rapid-deployment bridges, echoing Allied “funnies” of 1944.