Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his invasion into Russia is a part of Kyiv's border security strategy in an attempt to force Russian President Vladimir Putin to draw forces away from the front lines.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scrambling to counter Ukrainian offensives amid a weeklong invasion in Russia’s Kursk region in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy argued Monday night was a border security operation. 'Our operations are purely a security matter for Ukraine – the liberation of the border area from the Russian military,' Zelenskyy said in an overnight address.
Moscow called for a federal state of emergency in Kursk late last week as Ukrainian troops, tanks and drones flooded the border, prompting hundreds of thousands of Russian civilians to evacuate. Zelenskyy said that since the beginning of June, Ukraine’s Sumy oblast – which borders Russia’s Kursk region – has come under heavy fire with more than 2,000 rounds of drone, artillery and mortar strikes having been launched from Kursk alone.
The Ukrainian operation in Kursk Oblast a decision-point on the Kremlin and the Russian military command about whether to view the thousand-kilometer-long international border with northeastern Ukraine as a legitimate frontline that Russia must defend, instead of a dormant area of the theater, as they have treated it since Fall 2022,' he told Fox News Digital.
Russia must be forced into peace if Putin wants to continue waging war so badly,' he said Monday night. Zelenskyy has repeatedly called on the U.S. and its international allies to allow Kyiv to use long-range weapons to hit Russian military targets and logistics hubs to counter the barrage of missile fire it has endured on a daily basis. However, Washington has repeatedly denied approval for 'long-range' operations.
We see how useful this can be for bringing peace closer,' he said. 'We need appropriate permissions from our partners to use long-range weapons,' Zelenskyy urged. 'This is something that can significantly advance the just end of this war, as well as save thousands of Ukrainian lives from Russian terror.'
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