Russian Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday that its forces continued operations to hunt Ukrainian groups in Kursk province and inflicted losses upon them, killing 400 militants.

"The losses of Kyiv regime’s forces on Kursk axis during the past 24 hours also included 30 armored vehicles, other equipment and weapons, among them US HIMARS rocket launcher’’ the ministry said in a statement.

The statement added that Units of Russian forces repelled 11 attacks launched by enemy groups in the direction of MalayaLoknya , Borki and other towns and villages ,the units also thwarted attempts of attacks in the direction of Krasnoyarsk ,Olgovka and other regions as well as they continued to monitor and destroy enemy sabotage groups trying to penetrate deep into Russian territory.

The Russian army targeted enemy forces and equipment in the border areas of Kursk, while the air force bombed enemy reserve positions in the territory of the neighboring Ukrainian Sumy region.