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I’m in town, in my office, and I am keeping the situation under control,
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 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 You can’t be a boxer and fight in the ring with one arm tied behind your back,
It’s good that Ukraine is taking actions that surprise the Russians,
retired Polish General Roman Polko, the former commander of Poland’s special forces, told the Polish Press Agency Russian officials are attempting to balance presenting the effort as a notable Ukrainian escalation with avoiding overstating its potential implications and risking domestic discontent,
The current confirmed extent and location of Ukrainian advances in Kursk Oblast [region] indicate that Ukrainian forces have penetrated at least two Russian defensive lines and a stronghold,
We need to learn a serious lesson from what happened and do what Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov pledged to the supreme commander-in-chief to do, that is, resolutely defeat and crush the enemy,
he stated on Telegram, ... according to a Google translation We did not [ know in advance about the Kursk operation]. But it's not unusual for the Ukrainians not to notify us of their exact tactics before they execute them. It's a war that they're conducting. We provide them with equipment. We provide them with advice. But when it comes to the kind of day by day tactics that they carry out, the day by day strikes that they take ... it's appropriate for them to make those decisions,
he said in a press briefing The enemy's advance deep into territory in the Kursk direction was stopped by the actions of the units covering the state border together with border guards and reinforcement units, with air strikes, missile and artillery fire,
Gerasimov said in televised comments reported by Reuters The operation will end with the enemy's defeat and them being pushed back to the state border,
he told Putin in a televised meeting It is a little bit rich, them calling it a provocation, given Russia violated Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty."
U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said of the Kremlin The Kiev regime has undertaken another large-scale provocation,
Putin said in a televised meeting with government officials I'll let the Ukrainians speak to their operations, one way or the other, that's most appropriate. We're going to stay focused on making sure they have what they need to defend themselves,
In the last 24 hours, our region has been heroically resisting attacks,
Governor Smirnov said, also urging local residents to donate blood The more pressure put on Russia, the aggressor which brought war to Ukraine, the closer we come to peace. A just peace [achieved] through just strength."
In his daily televised remarks on Wednesday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made no reference to the reported Kursk incursion, but did say