Russian war bloggers reported intense battles across the Kursk front as Ukrainian forces tried to expand their control
A Ukrainian Humvee passes through the destroyed Russia n border post at the Sudzha border crossing with Ukraine on Aug. 12, 2024. Russia n forces on Tuesday struck back at Ukrainian troops with missiles, drones and air strikes in actions that one senior commander said had halted Ukraine ’s advance after the biggest attack on sovereign Russia n territory since the war began.
Russia’s defence ministry published footage of Sukhoi Su-34 bombers striking at what it said were Ukrainian troops in the Kursk border region and of infantry storming Ukrainian positions. The acting governor of Kursk, Alexei Smirnov, said on Monday that Ukraine controlled 28 settlements in the region, and the incursion was about 12 km deep and 40 km wide.
But Ukraine’s counteroffensive in 2023 failed to pierce heavily dug-in Russian lines, and Russian forces have been advancing this year deeper into Ukrainian territory. President Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainians in his nightly address that the operation in Russia was a matter of Ukrainian security and the Kursk region had been used by Russia to launch many strikes against Ukraine.
Putin said that the West was using Ukraine to fight a proxy war with Russia and the border incursion was an attempt to undermine Russian domestic stability.
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