MOSCOW, November 5. /TASS/. Scouts from a paratrooper unit used mines to block one of the routes used by Ukrainian forces trying to enter the Kursk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

“In one of the sections of the line of engagement near the settlement of Novy Put in the Glushkovsky district of the Kursk region, scouts of a Tula parachute unit entered the zone of the Russian border -Ukrainian and installed a mine barrier on the road, blocking one of the routes that Ukrainian forces regularly use to try to enter our territory, thus re-establishing the national border in this particular section Before the incursion of the. Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region, a network of engineering barriers was built there to prevent the enemy, using foreign-made engineering equipment, constantly crossed the state border in several places in the district. of Glushkovsky,” the ministry said.

According to the ministry, the soldiers of the regiment’s reconnaissance company with the call signs Porsh and Pochta destroyed the enemy covering the passage in the technical barriers and moved forward to complete the combat mission.

“Then, after inspecting the enemy’s position, they discovered a mine barrier and used it to restore the integrity of the state border by stretching the barrier and placing mines to prevent the deployment of enemy reserves across the state border,” the ministry said.