.Russia's counteroffensive to take back Ukrainian-held region in the southwestern Kursk location has been "stopped," a speaker from Ukraine's army administration in the area informed AFP Wednesday.Earlier, Russia's Defense Department stated it had retaken a number of communities coming from Ukraine in the Kursk region. Kyiv has actually thus far hung on to huge swathes of Russian territory considering that releasing its surprise incursion in very early August." They tried to strike from the flanks, but they were stopped certainly there," spokesman Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky said to AFP. "The situation was actually maintained and also today every thing is controlled, they were not effective.".However, Dmytrashkivsky acknowledged that Russian pressures had found "some minor results" along with their counteroffensive. "The Russians entered into one of the settlements. They started defending another resolution, yet that was it.".He additionally claimed there were actually "numerous many thousand" Russian private citizens in locations inhabited through Ukrainian soldiers. "In some negotiations, there are actually greater than one hundred individuals, more than 200, greater than five hundred.".In overdue August, Russian authorities claimed around 20,000 individuals continued to be in places of the Kursk region kept through Ukrainian pressures. In general, greater than 150,000 folks residing in communities near the perimeter have been actually required to expel their homes.Dmytrashkivsky also claimed that Russian strikes aimed at reclaiming its territory have actually killed "23 private citizens" given that the end of August, mentioning they are actually "dying along with the Ukrainian armed force.".According to him, civilians are "certainly not enabled to leave" considering that "the scenario has to be managed." Nonetheless, he said, they are actually allowed to "move" the place as well as may "check out one another, consume, acquire somewhere, dig whites potato, do work in the yard.".Dmytrashkivsky mentioned that private citizens might be enabled to leave behind for Russian-controlled territory on the occasion that Ukraine and Russia "acknowledge, through international organizations that manage these issues, to open a green hallway under the guidance of viewers.".Previously recently, Kyiv asked the United Nations and also the International Board of the Reddish Cross to notice the situation in regions of Russia's Kursk its troops handle.Dmytrashkivsky pointed out that food is actually delivered right into those areas from northeastern Ukraine's Sumy area. "The Sumy regional management assigns funds for bread on an every week basis. The armed forces deliver water, the administration hands out food package deals."." Absolutely nothing operates there certainly, no shops, no pharmacy, nothing at all," he added.