Russian military bloggers depicted the situation in Kursk region as more serious than the official accounts, with some suggesting that Ukraine had opened a new front.
Russia says major battles are under way.Russia said on Wednesday it was fighting intense battles against Ukrainian forces that had penetrated its southern border near a major natural gas transmission hub, in one of the largest incursions into Russian territory since the war began.
Russia’s National Guard said it had beefed up security around the nearby Kursk nuclear power station and its four reactors. A serviceman of the 24th Mechanised Brigade runs past a damaged car at the frontline town of Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, Ukraine.“The Kyiv regime has launched another major provocation,” President Vladimir Putin told members of the Russian government, referring to the attack in Kursk region.
Ukraine’s General Staff also made no acknowledgment in its daily battlefield update, but said Russia had stepped up the use of warplanes against Ukraine’s Sumy region across the border.There was fighting around Sudzha, the last operational trans-shipping point for Russian natural gas to Europe via Ukraine. The Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhhorod pipeline carried about 14.65 billion cubic metres of gas in 2023, about half of Russia’s gas exports to Europe.
Trump has said he would end the war, so both Russia and Ukraine are keen to gain the strongest possible bargaining position on the battlefield. Ukraine wants to pin down Russian forces and show the West it can still mount major battles.
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