.Russia's counteroffensive to retake Ukrainian-held area in the southwestern Kursk region has been "stopped," a representative coming from Ukraine's military administration in the region informed AFP Wednesday.Previously, Russia's Protection Ministry said it had taken back a number of villages coming from Ukraine in the Kursk area. Kyiv has actually so far hung on to big swathes of Russian region since introducing its own surprise incursion in very early August." They tried to strike from the flanks, yet they were actually stopped there," spokesperson Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky informed AFP. "The circumstance was stabilized and today whatever is in control, they were certainly not prosperous.".Having said that, Dmytrashkivsky accepted that Russian powers had actually found "some minor success" along with their counteroffensive. "The Russians entered among the settlements. They began fighting for an additional settlement, however that was it.".He likewise claimed there were actually "numerous thousand" Russian civilians in places occupied through Ukrainian soldiers. "In some resolutions, there are greater than one hundred people, more than 200, much more than five hundred.".In late August, Russian authorities pointed out around 20,000 folks remained in locations of the Kursk region kept through Ukrainian powers. On the whole, more than 150,000 individuals living in neighborhoods near the perimeter have been forced to evacuate their homes.Dmytrashkivsky likewise asserted that Russian strikes focused on reclaiming its region have eliminated "23 private citizens" since the end of August, mentioning they are actually "dying with the Ukrainian armed force.".According to him, civilians are "not enabled to leave" because "the scenario has to be regulated." However, he stated, they are actually made it possible for to "walk around" the place as well as can "go to each other, eat, collect someplace, dig whites potato, work in the backyard.".Dmytrashkivsky stated that civilians may be allowed to leave for Russian-controlled area in case Ukraine and Russia "concede, via global companies that cope with these issues, to open up a green hallway under the oversight of viewers.".Earlier recently, Kyiv talked to the United Nations and the International Board of the Red Cross to monitor the scenario in places of Russia's Kursk its own troops control.Dmytrashkivsky pointed out that food items is actually delivered into those places coming from northeastern Ukraine's Sumy region. "The Sumy local management assigns funds for breadstuff on an every week manner. The armies deliver water, the administration hand over meals packages."." Absolutely nothing functions there certainly, no stores, no pharmacy, nothing at all," he incorporated.