MOSCOW, Russia — Moscow on Saturday launched a 'counter-terror operation' in three border regions adjoining Ukraine to halt Kyiv's biggest cross-border offensive in the two-and-a-half year conflict.
MOSCOW, Russia — Moscow on Saturday launched a 'counter-terror operation' in three border regions adjoining Ukraine to halt Kyiv's biggest cross-border offensive in the two-and-a-half year conflict. Ukrainian units stormed across the border into Russia 's western Kursk region on Tuesday morning in a shock attack and have advanced several kilometers, according to independent analysts.
Movement is restricted, vehicles can be seized, phone calls can be monitored, areas are declared no-go zones, checkpoints introduced, and security is beefed up at key infrastructure sites.The anti-terrorism committee said Ukraine had mounted an 'unprecedented attempt to destabilize the situation in a number of regions of our country.'It called Ukraine's incursion a 'terrorist attack' and said Kyiv's troops had wounded civilians and destroyed residential buildings.
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