Russian military bloggers say fighting is taking place as deep as 20km inside the Kursk region.
SUMY REGION, Ukraine - President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had launched an incursion into Russian territory to “restore justice” and pressure Moscow’s forces, in his first acknowledgement of Kyiv’s surprise offensive into the western Kursk region.since the start of the war, which left south-western parts of Russia vulnerable before reinforcement started arriving.in three border regions on Aug 10, after the attack which military analysts say caught the Kremlin off-guard.
Russia’s defence ministry said on Aug 11 it had destroyed 14 Ukrainian drones and four Tochka-U tactical ballistic missiles overnight over the Kursk region, and 18 drones over other Russian regions that Ukraine frequently attacks.Ukraine has at most occupied several tens of square kilometres of Russian territory without laying claim to it, while Russia controls more than 100,000sq km of Ukraine’s internationally recognised territory.
Mr Zelensky said on Aug 11 Russia had launched nearly 2,000 cross-border strikes on Ukraine’s Sumy region from the region of Kursk this summer and that such strikes deserved a Ukrainian response. An image posted by Kursk’s mayor showed flames rising through a shattered apartment block surrounded by charred debris.
Russian military bloggers say fighting is taking place as deep as 20km inside the Kursk region, prompting some of them to question why Ukraine was able to pierce the Kursk region so easily.
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