Russia’s counter-offensive to retake territory captured by Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region has been “stopped,” a spokesman from Ukraine’s military administration set up in the area told AFP Wednesday.Russia earlier this month said it had seized several villages back from Ukraine in the Kursk region, where Kyiv has held on to swathes of land since its surprise incursion in early August.“They tried to attack from the flanks, but they were stopped there,” spokesman Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky told AFP.For the latest updates on the Russia-Ukraine war, visit our dedicated page.“The situation was stabilized and today everything is under control, they are not successful,” he said.Dmytrashkivsky also said there were “several thousand” Russian civilians in areas occupied by Ukrainian troops.“In some settlements there are more than 100 people, more than 200, more than 500,” he said.Russia has not said how many of its civilians remain in the Kyiv-controlled areas, saying only that around 130,000