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The Russian army is attacking Ukrainian combatants who are trying to advance on the area from Ukraine’s Sumy region,
Russian military commanders lie about controlling the situation in Kursk Oblast,
Kovalenko wrote in the Telegram post The offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kursk Oblast, leveraging the element of surprise and facing less well-trained forces compared to those on the Eastern front, seems to have met with some initial success. This attack could compel Russian forces to redeploy troops from other parts of the war zone and thus ease local pressure in areas where the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been struggling,
Kursk region. Day three. Everything is according to plan. For the first time since World War II, a foreign army is conducting a combined arms operation on the territory of Russia and taking control of settlements."
In the early hours of August 8, Goncharenko added We have to start with the events in the Kursk region,
he said at an emergency meeting of his Security Council The Armed Forces of Ukraine have launched a up to 25K, or small NATO Corps sized, incursion into the Kursk Oblast that is moving between 7 & 10 km a day,
Trent Telenko posted on X, formerly Twitter The enemy has not advanced a single metre, on the contrary, it is retreating. The enemy's equipment and combat forces are being actively destroyed. We hope that in the near future ... the enemy will be stopped,
the Kursk region's acting deputy governor Andrei Belostotsky said Thursday, ... according to state news agency RIA-Novosti Attempts by individual units to break through deep into the territory in the Kursk direction are being suppressed,
Ukrainians know how to achieve their goals,
When will it be possible to conduct a negotiation process in the way that we can push them or get something from them? Only when the war is not going on according to their scenarios,
We are confident that the Mexican government would comply in any case with the international arrest warrant by handing over the aforementioned [Putin] to the United Nations judicial body in The Hague,
the Ukrainian embassy said in a statement Russia does not control the border, ... there will be a lot of news from the Kursk region."
Kovalenko said on Tuesday, after teasing The enemy knew where to strike,
The enemy's onslaught in the Kursk region has not yet been contained,
according to the popular Rybar account The third day, and the situation has not improved,
Russian journalist Alexander Sladkov said on Thursday The foe is gaining a foothold, pulling reserves, increasing the presence of equipment in the region, despite the constant strikes of our aviation and drones,
one account said on Thursday To eliminate the consequences of enemy forces coming into the region, I took the decision to introduce a state of emergency in the Kursk region from Aug. 7,
the acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, said in a post on Telegram Wednesday evening It is important to continue destroying our enemy … And the more pressure is exerted on Russia … the closer peace will be.”
While not mentioning Kursk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late Wednesday This is no longer just an operation to retake our official territories and punish the Nazis. It is possible and necessary to go to the lands of the still existing Ukraine. To Odesa, to Kharkiv, to Dnipropetrovsk, to Mykolaiv. To Kyiv and beyond,
Kursk region. Day three. Everything is according to plan.”
Goncharenko added Thursday morning