The head of Russia’s Kursk border region is urging local residents to donate blood amid blurry reports of an incursion by combatants from Ukraine. Kursk acting governor Alexei Smirnov said Wednesday that blood banks were stocking up because of the fighting. He said the Kursk region “has been heroically resisting attacks” by Ukrainian fighters.
KYIV, Ukraine — The head of Russia’s Kursk border region on Wednesday urged local residents to donate blood amid blurry reports of an incursion by combatants from Ukraine.
“In the last 24 hours, our region has been heroically resisting attacks” by Ukrainian fighters, Smirnov wrote, adding that all emergency services were on high alert. Rybar, a Telegram channel ran by Mikhail Zvinchuk, a retired Russian Defense Ministry press officer, said that Ukrainian troops had seized three settlements in the region and continued to fight their way deeper into it.
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