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For the first time, the Kursk region was hit by Western-made rocket launchers, probably American HIMARS,
Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said late on Friday on the Telegram messaging app Of course, it’s very difficult to independently verify what is happening on the ground,
Russian units there [are] caught between a river and a hard place – not very many places for them to go at the moment,
No one has canceled the pontoons,
In the main sections of the ragged front, the situation has stabilized. But there are areas where the enemy continues to try to expand its bridgehead,
he wrote on his Telegram channel No one expected that this kind of conflict was even possible in the Kursk region. That is why there is such confusion and panic, because citizens are arriving (from front-line areas) and they’re scared, very scared,
Then it is clear that there is no seriousness behind it,
At the moment, the Russian side is not showing any willingness to negotiate but is insisting on exaggerated preconditions,
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff told Bonner General-Anzeiger in remarks published Friday Part of the Glushkovsky district is now cut off
A frantic post from a pro-war channel said You have made an unforgivable mistake, stepping with your filthy pig hooves on our holy land,
We see that the occupier is suffering losses, and this is helpful, very helpful for our defence
Unfazed by the latest threat and urging his armed forces to keep pressing on, Zelensky said in his latest video address If the objective was to divert the Russian effort from the Donbas, it's failed so far,
said Yohann Michel, a French military expert and research fellow at the IESD Institute in Lyon, France It concerns the destruction of the Russian army logistics and the draining of their reserves,
he said in an evening address Notably, this is the first time that civilian objects in the Kursk Region have been struck by Western-made rockets, likely American HIMARS,
As the result of an attack from Ukraine, a road bridge across the Seym River in the Glushkovsky district was destroyed. I am currently in contact with the local administration."
Alexei Smirnov, Kursk's acting governor, confirmed the incident in another post on Telegram, writing The sooner Russia agrees to restore a just peace, the sooner Ukrainian raids on Russian territory will stop. As long as Putin continues the war, he will receive such responses from Ukraine,
a spokesperson for Ukraine's foreign affairs ministry said, per the BBC Ukrainian pilots are conducting precision strikes against enemy strongholds, equipment concentrations, as well as enemy logistics centers and supply routes."
The Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Mykola Oleshchuk, shared footage appearing to show the strike in a post on Telegram, writing We must inflict maximum damage on all Russian positions, and we are doing that,
General Syrskyi also reported on the completion of the liberation of the town of Sudzha from the Russian military."
Due to the possible deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the adjacent territories of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, Ukraine must be ready to receive Russian refugees."
In a Telegram post on Wednesday evening, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said