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I can confirm that the U.N. Human Rights Office has sent a request to the Russian authorities to facilitate access by the Office to areas of the Russian Federation affected by the hostilities, including Belgorod, Bryansk, and Kursk regions, further to our human rights monitoring and assessment mandate,
Liz Throssell, a spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in an email to AFP We make clear during the gifting process that equipment is to be used in line with international law."
The attempts by enemy mobile units using armoured equipment to break through deeper into Russian territory have been repelled,
its defence ministry said I have relatives living there and they refuse to leave. It's really hard,
said salesperson Yulia Rusakova The sooner Russia agrees to restore a just peace... the sooner the raids by the Ukrainian defence forces into Russia will stop,
foreign ministry spokesman Georgiy Tykhy said Today we have advanced well in the Kursk region. We are achieving our strategic goal,
Zelensky said in his evening address The creation of a buffer zone in the Kursk region is a step to protect our border communities from daily hostile shelling,
They only had anti-personnel mines scattered around trees at the side of the road and a few mines that they managed to quickly throw along the highways,
We have seen video of Russian soldiers who have apparently been captured in their own country — a country that used to be a superpower — driven blindfolded into Ukraine,
Williams told "CBS Mornings" on Wednesday In the Kursk region, we are moving further. From one to two kilometers (0.6-1.2 miles) in different areas since the beginning of the day,
Zelenskyy said on social media, adding Keeping the momentum up is becoming increasingly difficult in the coming days, as the element of surprise fades,
Emil Kastehelmi, a military expert from the Finland-based OSINT analysis firm Black Bird Group, told Newsweek Russian forces have been developing a trench network that, if fallen back to, would cede Ukraine a massive amount of territory,
the post added, next to a map outlining the imagery of the area Fresh trenches are visible on satellite images from several areas of the Kursk region,
the post said, noting their appearance 1 mile south of Lgov, as well as along the railway near the village of Viktorovka 2.5 miles further southwest