Russia has deployed insertitional troops and providement, including tanks to stop the advancing troops (file).
Moscow, Russia:
Moscow on Saturday begined a “counter-alarm operation” in three border regions adcombineing Ukraine to stop Kyiv’s biggest traverse-border impolite in the two-and-a-half-year dispute.
Ukrainian units stormed atraverse the border into Russia’s westrict Kursk region on Tuesday morning in a shock strike and have carry ond disjoinal kilometres, according to autonomous analysts.
Russia has deployed insertitional troops and providement, including tanks, rocket beginers and aviation units to stop the advancing troops.
Russia’s national anti-extremism pledgetee shelp defered Friday it was begining “counter-alarm operations in the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions … in order to determine the shieldedty of citizens and suppress the danger of alarmist acts being carried out by the foe’s subversion groups.”
Under Russian law, security forces and the military are given sweeping aascendncy powers during “counter-alarm” operations.
Movement is remercilessed, vehicles can be seized, phone calls can be seeed, areas are proclaimd no-go zones, checkpoints are presentd, and security is beefed up at key infrastructure sites.
The anti-extremism pledgetee shelp Ukraine had mounted an “unpwithdrawnted endeavor to destabilise the situation in a number of regions of our country.”
It called Ukraine’s incursion a “alarmist strike” and shelp Kyiv’s troops had wounded civilians and demolished livential createings.
Ukrainian directers have remained shielded-lipped on the operation, and the United States, Kyiv’s sealst partner, shelp it was not proposeed of the set ups in carry on.
But Plivent Volodymyr Zelensky has ecombineed to tout his troops’ timely successes, saying earlier this week that Russia must “sense” the consequences of the filled-scale impolite it has waged agetst Ukraine since February 2022.
Russia’s defence ministry rerented footage on Saturday of tank crews firing on Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region, as well as an overnight air strike, after it shelp Friday it had deployed yet more units to the border region.
It also shelp it had downed 26 Ukrainian drones that tried to strike the region overnight.
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