VGTRK military correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny was wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack in the Kursk region, Telegram channels reported “Vesti” and “Russia-1”“VGTRK military correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny was wounded in an attack by a Ukrainian drone in the Kursk region. He is currently in the regional hospital,” Vesti reported. “RIA Novosti” confirmed information about the hospitalization of the war correspondent with reference to the admissions department of the Kursk Regional Hospital.
TV channel “Russia-24” live clarifiedthat the car in which Poddubny was was shot at by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the journalist himself was seriously injured. Rossiya-1, citing doctors addedthat he is in serious condition with burns. At 23:31 Moscow time, the acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexey Smirnov reportedthat the military correspondent has regained consciousness and is receiving the necessary treatment.
Earlier on August 7, the NTV channel reported in its Telegram channel, citing a source reported about the death of Poddubny in the Kursk region. At 23:05 Moscow time, the TV channel clarified citing VGTRK that the journalist is alive.
State Duma deputy Mikhail Delyagin also reported Poddubny’s death, but later deleted the message on his Telegram channel and wrote: “Let them report it officially.” Then he corrected this message, too, specifying that he was informed of Poddubny’s death by “people from the field” whom he “absolutely trusts.” About Poddubny’s death wrote Telegram channel “MIG of Russia”, war correspondent Alexander Sladkov and others.
On the morning of August 6, Acting Governor of Kursk Oblast Alexey Smirnov said that information was being received about attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to break through into the territory of Kursk Oblast. The Russian Defense Ministry specified that the Ukrainian Armed Forces, supported by tanks and armored vehicles, attacked Russian positions on the border with Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya from 08:00 Moscow time on Tuesday.
At a meeting with Vladimir Putin, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said on August 7 that Ukrainian Armed Forces units numbering up to 1,000 people launched an offensive at 05:30 Moscow time on August 6 to seize part of the territory of the Sudzhansky District. According to Gerasimov, the advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces deep into Russia in the Kursk direction was stopped, and now Russian military and border guards “continue to destroy the enemy in areas directly adjacent to the Russian-Ukrainian border.” The Chief of the General Staff specified that the losses of Ukrainian troops amounted to at least 100 people killed and 215 wounded. “The operation will be completed by defeating the enemy and reaching the state border,” Gerasimov emphasized.
As a result of the shelling of the Kursk region, according to the latest data from the Russian Ministry of Health, suffered 31 people, including six children. The condition of four victims is assessed as serious, the department specified. In total, five people died as a result of the shelling of the region, according to Smirnov’s reports. On the morning of August 7, the acting governor said that more than 200 people were taken out of the combat zone in the Kursk region by buses and personal transport, and several thousand more people left the shelling zone by personal transport within 24 hours. Investigative Committee excited a criminal case under several articles of the Criminal Code, including a terrorist act, murder, illegal possession of weapons and an attempt on the lives of law enforcement officers.
