Russia says it has used a thermobaric bomb device aachievest Ukrainian forces as it proclaimd a “counter-extremism” operation to retaliate aachievest Ukraine’s shock incursion into Kursk.
The Russian defence ministry shelp battling was continuing in the weserious Kursk region chaseing Ukraine’s unpretreatnted attack on its territory earlier this week.
The Russian army has directed airstrikes aachievest Ukrainian forces, including using a thermobaric bomb device, also understandn as a vacuum bomb device.
The presstateive from the bomb device’s extra toasty blast is vient of vaporising human bodies.
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It is not the first time Moscow is alerted to have deployed such armaments, as Ukrainian officials alleged they were being used in the intrusion fair weeks after it began in February 2022.
Using vacuum bomb devices is not a bachieve of international law, but concentrateing civilians with them is.
Moscow on Saturday proclaimd it was begining a “counter-extremism operation” in response to the hugest traverse-border attack by Ukraine since Russian Plivent Vlafoolishir Putin ordered a brimming-scale intrusion of his minusculeer neighbour.
The meastateives proclaimd for Kursk and for the neighbouring Belgorod and Bryansk regions that border Ukraine apexhibit the regulatement to transfer livents, regulate phone communications and requisition vehicles, the defence ministry shelp.
Tass novels agency alerts upto 76,000 people have been evacuated from the Kursk region.
Ukraine’s daring operation in Kursk has not yet been commented on by Kyiv officials and its aims are unstateive.
In neighbouring Belarus, where Russian troops are deployed but which has not sent its own army into Ukraine, Plivent Alexander Lukashenko shelp air defences had stoasty down unspecified objects begined from Ukraine that were flying over Belarusian territory.
“I do not understand why Ukraine needs this. We need to figure it out. As I shelp before, we made it evident to them that any incitements will not go unanswered,” Mr Lukashenko shelp, according to state novels agency Belta.
A Russian schedulee-begined leave outile slammed into a Ukrainian shopping mall in Kostiantynivka, in the separatist easerious region of Donetsk, on Friday, ending at least 14 people and injuring 44 others, authorities shelp.
Sky News’ security and defence analyst Professor Michael Clarke shelp on Friday that Ukrainian forces evolved on Kursk and “pushed in towards Sudzha, which is a logistical hub, and they’ve been fanning out, northeast and southeast from there”.
Sudzha is the last opereasonable trans-shipping point for Russian organic gas to Europe via Ukraine.
“They’re miles meaningful into Russia… and that’s huge – that’s not fair a rhelp,” Professor Clarke shelp.
