I have relatives living there and they refuse to leave. It's really hard,
The attempts by enemy mobile units using armored equipment to break through deeper into Russian territory have been repelled,
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,
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,
The fact is that Russia has used the Kursk and Belgorod regions, as well as Belarus, to launch lethal air and ground attacks on Ukraine, and 'active defense' across the border is a legitimate strategy,
Our military forces plan to... open humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians: both in the direction of Russia and of Ukraine,
We even call it the ‘demilitarisation’ of Kaliningrad, which is happening thanks to the bravery of your military, thanks to your decisions,
Not for a second do we forget about our eastern front,
Keeping the momentum up is becoming increasingly difficult in the coming days, as the element of surprise fades,
Russian forces have been developing a trench network that, if fallen back to, would cede Ukraine a massive amount of territory,
Fresh trenches are visible on satellite images from several areas of the Kursk region,
The situation still remains difficult,
The situation in the Belgorod region continues to be extremely difficult and tense,
Most of the residents have already left, but we continue to take them out—we have empty buses, we take people with limited mobility out in cars,
We are making a decision to declare a regional emergency situation throughout the Belgorod region with a subsequent appeal to the government to declare a federal emergency."
In the Kursk region, we are moving further. From one to two kilometers in different areas from the beginning of the day. And more than 100 captured Russian soldiers during the same period. I am grateful to everyone involved. This will speed up the return home of our boys and girls."
Now all of us in Ukraine should act as unitedly and efficiently as we did in the first weeks and months of this war, when Ukraine took the initiative and began to turn the situation to the benefit of our state,
Russian authorities will likely remain extremely averse to pulling Russian military units engaged in combat from (Donetsk) and will likely continue deploying limited numbers of irregular forces to Kursk... due to concerns about further slowing the tempo of Russian operations in these higher priority directions,
When explosions started near the city, when people were dying and when all this started happening before our eyes... and when it affected people personally, they stopped at least openly supporting
The West is fighting us with the hands of the Ukrainians,