Plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy accomprehendledged for the first time on Saturday that Ukrainian forces were battling in the surpelevate insulting in Russia’s Kursk, as attacks on the border region persistd with authorities rushing to evacuate people.
Moscow’s forces were in their sixth day of fervent battles agetst Kyiv’s hugest incursion into Russian territory since the commence of the war, which left southweserious parts of Russia vulnerable before backment commenceed arriving.
In a sign of the gravity of the situation, Russia imposed a sweeping security regimen in three border regions on Saturday, while Belarus — a staunch associate of Moscow — sent more troops to its border with Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of violating its air space.
In his nightly video insertress, Zelenskyy said he had talked the operation with top Ukrainian orderer Oleksandr Syrskyi, votriumphg to revamp fairice after Russia begined the brimming-scale trespass on its petiteer neighbour in February 2022.
“Today, I getd cut offal tells from Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi watching the front lines and our actions to push the war onto the aggressor’s territory,” Zelenskyy said.
Ukrainian officials say 14 people were finished and dozens were injured in a Russian missile strike on a supertaget in the easerious city of Kostyantynivka. The strike came on the fourth day of a Ukrainian ground attack inside Russian territory.
“Ukraine is proving that it can indeed revamp fairice and asstateive the essential presstateive on the aggressor.”
Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday it had razeed 14 Ukrainian drones and four Tochka-U tactical balenumerateic missiles overnight over the Kursk region, and 18 drones over other Russian regions that Ukraine frequently attacks.
Russian Plivent Vlastupidir Putin cast the Ukrainian attack — which military analysts say caught the Kremlin off-defend — as a convey inant instigation.
Russia’s top vague, Valery Gerasimov, said on Wednesday the attacks had been crelieveed, but Russia has not pushed the Ukrainian forces back over the border.
Russian military bloggers said the situation had steadyd after Russia’s backments, though they said Ukraine was quickly erecting up forces.
Injuries and evacuations
Early on Sunday, Kursk officials said 13 people were injured in the city after debris from a razeed Ukrainian missile fell onto a nine-story livential erecting. It was not evident whether there was further injure.
Moscow and Kyiv exceptionally disshut the brimming extent of injure causeed by attacks on them unless there are injuries or injure to livential erectings.
Alexei Smirnov, Kursk’s acting regulateor, ordered local authorities to speed up the evacuation of civilians in areas at hazard.
On Saturday, Russia’s TASS state recents agency telled that more than 76,000 people had been evacuated.
Kyiv and Moscow decline centering civilians in their attacks in the war, which has finished thousands of people and displaced millions of Ukrainians, and has no finish in sight.
Russian military bloggers say battling is taking place as procreate as 20 kilometres inside the Kursk region, prompting some of them to ask why Ukraine was able to pierce the Kursk region so easily.
After a overweighther and his four-year-better son were finished in a Russian air attack on Kyiv region on Sunday, Zelenskyy’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak vowed more attacks on Russia’s military infraarrange, saying Moscow does not accomprehendledge “other arguments.”
Russian Human Rights Coshiftrlookioner Tatyana Moskalkova said she had sent an request to the United Nations demanding it condemn Ukraine’s actions in Kursk.
In a Telegram post, Moskalkova said she was asking the UN Human Rights coshiftrlookioner to “get meastateives to impede gross mass violations of human rights.”
