The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson says Kiev is not interested in taking territory of the Kursk region, with the goal of the incursion to 'protect the lives of our people.'
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson says Kiev is not interested in taking territory of the Kursk region, with the goal of the incursion to "protect the lives of our people."Ukrainian servicemen operate an armoured military vehicle in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia / Photo: AFP
The commander of the Ukrainian military, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said in a video posted on Tuesday to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Telegram channel that Ukraine now controls 74 settlements in the Kursk region. About 121,000 people have been evacuated from Kursk or have fled the areas affected by fighting on their own, Russian officials say. The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said it had seen geolocated footage indicating that Ukrainian forces advanced as much as 24 kilometres from the border.
Volunteers were pictured distributing bags of aid, while officials from the country’' Ministry of Emergency Situations helped people, including children and older people, off buses. He said Russia had launched more than 2,000 strikes from the Kursk region in recent months using anti-aircraft missiles, artillery, mortars, drones, 255 glide bombs and more than 100 missiles.
The Ukrainian Army's General Staff announced on Tuesday that it was establishing a 20-kilometre restricted-access zone along the Russian-Ukrainian border in the northeastern Sumy region, which borders Kursk.
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