08 August 2024, Thursday, 16:10 451

The only checkpoint with russia Kolotylivka-Pokrovka closed for 10 days

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In the Sumy Region, the only active checkpoint Kolotylivka-Pokrovka was closed on the border between Ukraine and russia.

This was announced by the Minister of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, Iryna Vereshchuk, on the air of the national telethon, Suspilne reports.

She explained that the checkpoint was closed due to the escalation in the Sumy Axis.

"The russian army is shelling our territories. Today, the humanitarian corridor Kolotylivka-Pokrovka is temporarily closed. According to our military, it will be for at least 10 days. Then we will see what happens," Vereshchuk said.

It will be recalled that the Kolotylivka-Pokrovka pedestrian checkpoint was used so that residents of the occupied territory could return to the territory controlled by Ukraine through russia. At the same time, it was not necessary to overcome the exhausting and expensive route through Europe.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, according to the russian media, the Armed Forces of Ukraine took control of the Sudzha gas measuring station in the Kursk Oblast, through which gas is transited to Europe via Ukraine.

Also, on August 7, a number of russian propagandists and "military bloggers" stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly took control of 11 settlements in the south of the Kursk Oblast.

In addition, on August 7, analysts of the Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState talked about the first losses of russians in the Kursk Oblast, which they managed to record.

Among the losses of the russians is a Mi-28 attack helicopter, which was shot down by SSU fighters using an FPV drone. This is the first recorded case since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, and probably in history.

Earlier, russian propagandists complained about fighters from the Chechen unit "Akhmat", who left their positions in the border region of the Kursk Oblast after the start of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.