.Russia's counteroffensive to retake Ukrainian-held area in the southwestern Kursk area has actually been "stopped," a representative from Ukraine's armed forces management in the area said to AFP Wednesday.Earlier, Russia's Self defense Ministry claimed it had actually retaken a number of communities from Ukraine in the Kursk location. Kyiv has actually thus far held on to sizable swathes of Russian region considering that introducing its own shock incursion in very early August." They made an effort to strike coming from the flanks, however they were quit there certainly," spokesman Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky said to AFP. "The situation was actually supported and today every thing is controlled, they were actually not effective.".Having said that, Dmytrashkivsky confessed that Russian pressures had seen "some slight success" with their counteroffensive. "The Russians went into some of the negotiations. They started fighting for another resolution, however that was it.".He additionally stated there were actually "several thousand" Russian civilians in places occupied by Ukrainian soldiers. "In some negotiations, there are actually much more than 100 folks, greater than 200, more than five hundred.".In late August, Russian authorities pointed out around 20,000 individuals remained in locations of the Kursk location held by Ukrainian forces. In general, greater than 150,000 people living in communities near the border have been actually obliged to vacate their homes.Dmytrashkivsky additionally asserted that Russian strikes focused on repossessing its territory have killed "23 civilians" given that completion of August, claiming they are actually "perishing along with the Ukrainian military.".According to him, civilians are actually "not made it possible for to leave behind" due to the fact that "the situation has to be actually managed." Having said that, he said, they are made it possible for to "walk around" the location and also may "go to each other, consume, compile someplace, dig potatoes, do work in the landscape.".Dmytrashkivsky claimed that civilians might be allowed to leave for Russian-controlled territory on the occasion that Ukraine and also Russia "acknowledge, by means of international institutions that manage these problems, to open an environment-friendly passage under the direction of viewers.".Previously today, Kyiv inquired the United Nations and also the International Board of the Reddish Cross to monitor the situation in regions of Russia's Kursk its forces handle.Dmytrashkivsky pointed out that food is actually taken right into those areas from northeastern Ukraine's Sumy location. "The Sumy regional administration assigns funds for breadstuff on a regular manner. The armies deliver water, the administration hand over meals deals."." Nothing operates certainly there, no shops, no drug store, nothing at all," he added.