KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Saturday announced increased security measures in the border region of Kursk, where an incursion this week by Ukrainian forces caught Russian troops off guard and exposed its military vulnerabilities in the nearly 2½-year-old war.
BYKYIV, Ukraine — Russia on Saturday announced increased security measures in the border region of Kursk, where an incursion this week by Ukrainian forces caught Russian troops off guard and exposed its military vulnerabilities in the nearly 2½-year-old war.
Zelenskyy commended Ukrainian combat brigades across the front line, including the Sumy region, which lies adjacent to Kursk. He also said that Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine's armed forces, had sent him multiple reports about the front-line situation"and our actions to push the war out into the aggressor's territory."
There is fighting on the outskirts of Sudzha, about 10 kilometers from the Ukraine border. The town has an important pipeline transit hub for Russian natural gas exports to Europe. The strategic aims of the daring Ukrainian operation are unclear and there is little reliable information. Ukrainian officials have refused to comment on the incursion, which is taking place about 500 kilometers southwest of Moscow.
"Everything is calm in the town," they say, adding,"All the buildings are safe, strategic object of Gazprom in Sudzha is under the control of the 99th Mechanized Battalion." Asked about Ukraine's incursion, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Friday the United States was"in touch with our Ukrainian counterparts," but that he wouldn't comment until"those conversations are complete."
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