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No situation on the battlefield can justify targeting civilians,
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said on X, while the regional governor, Vadym Filashkin, said NEW: Russian sources claimed on August 9 that Ukrainian forces advanced further east in Kursk Oblast but are likely no longer operating as far north or as far west as Russian sources previously claimed on August 8.
Geolocated footage published on August 9 indicates that Ukrainian forces were recently operating west of Sudzha, within the settlement, north of Sudzha near Kazachya Loknya, and northeast of Leonidovo and in Dmitriukov.”
Many dead, some of the vehicles burned to the ground
A Russian channel on Telegram reported We can and we should take more land of the Ukraine that still exists,
The price of mistakes these days will be calculated in the lives of soldiers and civilians
One prominent blogger said The town is controlled by the armed forces of Ukraine, the town is calm, all buildings are intact,
a soldier in the video said, adding The chief [Putin] was in a poor mood … He probably hasn’t been seen [it] like this since our [Russian army] was forced to retreat from Kherson in the fall of 2022,
an official told the reporter This is extremely important and has been particularly effective over the past three days,
Ukrainian forces are reportedly present in areas as far as 35 kilometres from the international border,
said the independent US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in its daily assessment drawing on geolocated videos and photos The war has come to us, so all the relatives have gone to Moscow,
AFP heard a woman with her young daughter saying at the station I would like to appeal to all sides to exercise maximum restraint in order to avoid a nuclear accident with the potential for serious radiological consequences,
said IAEA chief Rafael Grossi In a few hours our town was turned into ruins ... Our relatives are left behind, we can't call them, there is no communication. Please help us get our land back,
one resident said in the video Russia will be held accountable for this terror,
Zelensky said in a post on Telegram About 20,000 people need to be evacuated
from 28 settlement ... Ukraine's police force said Everyone can see that the Ukraine army knows how to surprise and knows how to achieve results,
They clearly have achieved a degree of surprise which suggests that Russia's ability to do intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance is inadequate,
he said in a phone interview This is the war he started which has now bitten off a piece of Russia. And depending on how this plays out, how long [Ukraine] can hold the territory, can they get more territory, it's even more humiliating for Putin,
Ukraine is a total underdog, but they're a very effective underdog,
Meanwhile, [Russian army chief Valery] Gerasimov stated the other day that the Ukrainian Armed Forces group that crossed the border amounted to just under 1,000 people. So, everyone has already been killed? Then who controls the occupied territory in Kursk?"
asked X (formerly Twitter) user Dmitri, from War Translated, an independent project that translates materials about the war