.Russia's counteroffensive to retake Ukrainian-held region in the north western Kursk region has been "stopped," a speaker from Ukraine's army management in the area told AFP Wednesday.Earlier, Russia's Defense Department said it had taken back a number of towns from Ukraine in the Kursk region. Kyiv has actually so far hung on to large swathes of Russian area considering that introducing its own surprise attack in very early August." They attempted to assault coming from the flanks, yet they were actually quit certainly there," representative Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky informed AFP. "The circumstance was actually supported and also today every little thing is controlled, they were certainly not effective.".Nevertheless, Dmytrashkivsky acknowledged that Russian forces had viewed "some minor results" along with their counteroffensive. "The Russians entered some of the settlement deals. They began defending one more settlement deal, yet that was it.".He likewise mentioned there were "a number of many thousand" Russian private citizens in places occupied through Ukrainian soldiers. "In some resolutions, there are actually more than 100 folks, more than 200, greater than 500.".In late August, Russian authorizations said around 20,000 folks remained in locations of the Kursk area kept by Ukrainian pressures. Generally, more than 150,000 folks living in areas near the perimeter have been obliged to evacuate their homes.Dmytrashkivsky also professed that Russian strikes intended for repossessing its area have gotten rid of "23 civilians" considering that completion of August, stating they are actually "perishing along with the Ukrainian armed force.".According to him, civilians are "not enabled to leave behind" because "the condition should be regulated." Nevertheless, he mentioned, they are permitted to "move" the area and can "go to one another, eat, gather someplace, dig whites potato, work in the yard.".Dmytrashkivsky stated that civilians may be allowed to leave behind for Russian-controlled region on the occasion that Ukraine and also Russia "agree, by means of international companies that cope with these problems, to open up a green corridor under the guidance of onlookers.".Earlier today, Kyiv talked to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to monitor the circumstance in regions of Russia's Kursk its own troops regulate.Dmytrashkivsky said that food items is carried into those locations coming from northeastern Ukraine's Sumy location. "The Sumy regional management allocates funds for bread on a weekly manner. The militaries deliver water, the management distribute food items deals."." Nothing at all works there certainly, no stores, no pharmacy, nothing," he added.