.Russia's counteroffensive to retake Ukrainian-held area in the north western Kursk region has actually been "stopped," a representative from Ukraine's armed forces administration in the location said to AFP Wednesday.Earlier, Russia's Self defense Ministry mentioned it had actually taken back numerous villages from Ukraine in the Kursk area. Kyiv has actually thus far held on to huge swathes of Russian area considering that releasing its own shock attack in early August." They attempted to strike from the flanks, however they were quit there certainly," representative Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky informed AFP. "The situation was maintained and also today everything is under control, they were certainly not successful.".However, Dmytrashkivsky accepted that Russian powers had actually found "some small excellence" with their counteroffensive. "The Russians entered some of the negotiations. They started fighting for yet another negotiation, but that was it.".He likewise mentioned there were "a number of thousand" Russian private citizens in locations occupied through Ukrainian troops. "In some negotiations, there are actually more than one hundred people, greater than 200, much more than 500.".In late August, Russian authorities claimed around 20,000 individuals continued to be in places of the Kursk location stored by Ukrainian powers. On the whole, much more than 150,000 people residing in communities near the perimeter have been obliged to leave their homes.Dmytrashkivsky likewise claimed that Russian strikes intended for taking back its own area have actually killed "23 private citizens" due to the fact that the end of August, claiming they are "dying with the Ukrainian armed force.".According to him, private citizens are "not enabled to leave" because "the circumstance must be actually handled." Nevertheless, he claimed, they are enabled to "get around" the location and can "explore each other, eat, compile somewhere, dig potatoes, work in the backyard.".Dmytrashkivsky said that civilians could be allowed to leave behind for Russian-controlled region in the event that Ukraine and also Russia "concur, with international institutions that deal with these concerns, to open an environment-friendly passage under the supervision of observers.".Previously this week, Kyiv inquired the United Nations and the International Board of the Reddish Cross to monitor the situation in locations of Russia's Kursk its troops handle.Dmytrashkivsky pointed out that food items is delivered in to those regions coming from northeastern Ukraine's Sumy location. "The Sumy regional management allocates funds for breadstuff on a weekly basis. The armies deliver water, the management distribute food items package deals."." Nothing at all operates certainly there, no outlets, no drug store, absolutely nothing," he incorporated.