Crimean Paratroopers Defend Kursk Amid Renewed Ukrainian Attacks

Paratroopers from the 56th Airborne Regiment, based in Feodosia, Crimea, are repelling an attempted breakthrough by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) into Russia’s Kursk region. According to the War Correspondents of the Russian Spring Telegram channel, the paratroopers launched a fierce battle near the village of Tetkino in the Glushkovsky District, destroying Ukrainian infantry and equipment.

AFU has repeatedly tried to break through near Tetkino

First footage of battles involving paratroopers near Tetkino appeared on May 23. War correspondents reported that the Crimean paratroopers were repelling AFU attacks on the Kursk region.

“The 56th Airborne Regiment, during the defense against the Ukrainian occupiers' offensive on Tetkino, destroyed a significant amount of AFU infantry and equipment in the Sumy-Kursk border area,” they wrote.

One of the videos, shared by the Telegram channel Operation Z: War Correspondents of the Russian Spring, shows a paratrooper with the call sign ‘Van Gogh’ tracking and attacking Ukrainian troops and vehicles. Since August 2024, multiple videos have been released showing him destroying Ukrainian forces on the Kursk front.

AFU has made several attempts to attack Tetkino, with one of the most intense offensives taking place on May 19. Ukrainian troops in two armored vehicles and four quad bikes, supported by demining equipment, tried to penetrate Russian territory. FPV drones destroyed the enemy vehicles and killed 28 of the 30 Ukrainian soldiers involved.

Last village in Kursk region liberated in April

On April 26, Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov reported the liberation of the final village in the Kursk region—Gornal. He informed Russian President Vladimir Putin of the full liberation of the region following the AFU's incursion in August 2024.

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Tyotkino (Russian: Тёткино) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) on the left bank of the Seym river in Glushkovsky District of Kursk Oblast, Russia. Population: 3,852 (2021 Census); 4,223 (2010 Census); 5,224 (2002 Census); 5,375 (1989 Soviet census). It is on a small salient of Russian territory, with the Russia–Ukraine border running on the north-west, south-west and south-east of the settlement. To the south is Sumy Raion and to the north-west is Konotop Raion, both in the Sumy Oblast of Ukraine.