MOSCOW, 5 November. /TASS/. The Russian Defense Ministry said scouts in a paratrooper unit used mines to block one of the roads used by Ukrainian forces to enter the Kursk Region.

“On one of the sections of the conflict line near the settlement of Novy Put in the Glushkovsky District of the Kursk Region, scouts from the Tula paratrooper unit entered the Russian-Ukrainian state border area and set up a mine barrier on the road. They closed one of the roads that Ukrainian forces regularly use to enter our territory, making this special restored the state border in the region. Before the offensive of Ukrainian forces in the Kursk Region, a network of engineering barriers was built there to prevent the enemy. “The enemy was constantly crossing the state border at various points in the Glushkovsky District using foreign-made engineering equipment,” the ministry said. .

According to the ministry, soldiers of the regiment’s reconnaissance company with call signs Porsh and Pochta destroyed the enemy blocking the passage at the engineering barriers and moved forward to fulfill the combat mission.

“Then, after examining the enemy’s position, they discovered a mine barrier and used it to restore the integrity of the state border by tensioning the barrier and placing mines to prevent the spread of enemy reserves across the state border,” the ministry said. he said.