.Russia's counteroffensive to retake Ukrainian-held area in the north western Kursk region has been actually "stopped," a spokesperson from Ukraine's armed forces management in the region said to AFP Wednesday.Previously, Russia's Defense Ministry mentioned it had retaken a number of communities from Ukraine in the Kursk region. Kyiv has so far held on to sizable swathes of Russian area since releasing its own unpleasant surprise attack in early August." They made an effort to strike from the flanks, yet they were ceased there certainly," spokesman Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky said to AFP. "The situation was actually stabilized and also today whatever is controlled, they were not effective.".Nevertheless, Dmytrashkivsky confessed that Russian pressures had seen "some minor effectiveness" along with their counteroffensive. "The Russians got in one of the negotiations. They started defending another settlement, yet that was it.".He also mentioned there were actually "numerous thousand" Russian civilians in locations occupied through Ukrainian troops. "In some resolutions, there are more than one hundred individuals, greater than 200, more than 500.".In late August, Russian authorizations said around 20,000 people remained in places of the Kursk area stored through Ukrainian powers. In general, greater than 150,000 folks staying in neighborhoods near the perimeter have been actually forced to leave their homes.Dmytrashkivsky also asserted that Russian strikes focused on taking back its area have killed "23 civilians" considering that the end of August, claiming they are "dying with the Ukrainian military.".According to him, private citizens are "certainly not made it possible for to leave behind" since "the circumstance should be actually managed." Nonetheless, he claimed, they are enabled to "walk around" the area and may "check out one another, consume, compile somewhere, dig potatoes, function in the yard.".Dmytrashkivsky said that civilians can be allowed to leave for Russian-controlled territory on the occasion that Ukraine and also Russia "concur, by means of global organizations that cope with these issues, to open an environment-friendly corridor under the direction of onlookers.".Previously recently, Kyiv talked to the United Nations as well as the International Committee of the Red Cross to observe the scenario in regions of Russia's Kursk its own troops handle.Dmytrashkivsky claimed that food items is taken in to those places from northeastern Ukraine's Sumy location. "The Sumy regional administration allocates funds for breadstuff on a regular manner. The armies give water, the administration distribute meals bundles."." Absolutely nothing functions there, no shops, no drug store, nothing," he added.