.Russia's counteroffensive to retake Ukrainian-held territory in the north western Kursk region has been "ceased," a spokesman from Ukraine's army management in the region said to AFP Wednesday.Earlier, Russia's Defense Administrative agency mentioned it had actually retaken a number of communities from Ukraine in the Kursk region. Kyiv has actually so far held on to huge swathes of Russian region because releasing its shock attack in very early August." They tried to attack from the flanks, but they were actually stopped there," spokesman Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky said to AFP. "The condition was actually maintained and also today whatever is controlled, they were actually certainly not productive.".Nevertheless, Dmytrashkivsky admitted that Russian powers had actually found "some slight results" along with their counteroffensive. "The Russians got into among the settlements. They started fighting for one more resolution, however that was it.".He additionally pointed out there were "several thousand" Russian private citizens in places inhabited through Ukrainian soldiers. "In some settlement deals, there are much more than 100 people, much more than 200, more than five hundred.".In overdue August, Russian authorities stated around 20,000 people remained in areas of the Kursk area held by Ukrainian forces. In general, greater than 150,000 people living in communities near the borderline have been forced to expel their homes.Dmytrashkivsky likewise claimed that Russian strikes targeted at taking back its own area have actually eliminated "23 civilians" since completion of August, saying they are actually "dying with the Ukrainian armed force.".According to him, civilians are "certainly not enabled to leave behind" considering that "the situation needs to be managed." Nonetheless, he mentioned, they are allowed to "walk around" the location and can "check out one another, consume, collect somewhere, dig potatoes, do work in the yard.".Dmytrashkivsky claimed that private citizens could be enabled to leave behind for Russian-controlled area on the occasion that Ukraine and Russia "concede, via global organizations that take care of these issues, to open up a green corridor under the supervision of viewers.".Previously recently, Kyiv talked to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to notice the circumstance in places of Russia's Kursk its own forces handle.Dmytrashkivsky claimed that meals is actually taken in to those locations coming from northeastern Ukraine's Sumy region. "The Sumy local management allots funds for bread on an once a week basis. The armies offer water, the management hand over meals packages."." Nothing works there certainly, no shops, no pharmacy, absolutely nothing," he included.