Belousov, who visited the North Battlegroup’s command post on Friday, praised the troopers fighting in the area, and stated that “they crushed the enemy’s best units, accelerated their advance and derailed, in fact, Ukraine’s entire 2025 campaign,” TASS reported.

The Russian military institution, in turn, released a video on Friday with excerpts from such a meeting.

Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, commander of the North Battlegroup, presented Belousov with a report in which he explained the enemy’s operations, the peculiarities of the use of aviation, artillery, drones, and logistical issues.

President Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday that Ukraine fired British-supplied long-range Storm Shadow missiles causing deaths and injuries this week in a North battlegroup’s command post in Kursk province.

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