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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,
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 Ukraine has the right to self defence enshrined in international law. This is not limited to its own territory,
the German Foreign Ministry said in a comment to Politico Ukrainian forces are reportedly present in areas as far as 35 kilometres from the international border,
the ISW said in its daily campaign assessment 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 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 national police force said Everyone can see that the Ukraine army knows how to surprise and knows how to achieve results,
The question of whether Western weapons are involved doesn’t come up because, after they are delivered, they are Ukrainian weapons,
Attempts by individual [Ukrainian] units to break through deep into the territory in the Kursk direction are being thwarted.”
The Russian military issued a statement on Friday saying Obviously, we strongly support Ukraine’s effort to defend against Russia’s aggression, ... The policy that we announced was to allow Ukraine to respond to attacks coming from just over the Russian border. And yes, in the area where they are currently operating across the Russian border, we have seen attacks come from there.”
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday, adding 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 We have enough forces, there are already successes there, our aviation is working,
Russian lawmaker Victor Zavarzin told state-aligned Moscow radio station Govorit Moskva on Friday when asked if the situation in the Kursk region warranted a full-scale draft effort 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,