The governor of the Russian border region of Kursk has acknowledged that Kiev’s forces have penetrated twelve kilometers in a strip 40 kilometers wide. In turn, Russian troops today captured Lisichne in Donetsk, other cities last week and a total of 19 in July.
The Ukrainian troops who broke into the Russian Kursk region They control a total of 28 places in that federated entity, the acting governor said on Monday: Alexey Smirnovin a telematic meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other authorities of the country.
The governor has indicated that there are 28 residents living in those places about 2000 people and added that “their fate is unknown.”
‘We have 12 civilian casualties and 121 wounded, including 10 children’Smirnov said this at the meeting chaired by Putin and attended by top defense and security officials, as well as the governors of the Bryansk and Belgorod regions, neighbors of the Kursk region.
The governor reported that at the moment the areas bordering Ukraine are 121,000 people evacuated and the evacuation of another 60,000 is expected.
The governor has claimed that Kiev troops have penetrated to a depth of 12 kilometers in a strip 40 kilometers wide, while Ukrainian analysts speak of a depth of between 30 and 35 kilometers.
Zelensky acknowledges the invasion
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the Kursk invasion on Tuesday, saying it represents the “disaster of this war” for Moscow. “Russia brought war to others, now it is going home. Ukraine has always wanted only peace, and we will definitely guarantee peace,” he concluded in a speech.
Zelensky published the message shortly after reporting on a meeting of the war cabinet in which he received a report from the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Oleksandr Sirskyabout the situation at the front.
In the video of that meeting, published by the president, Sirski announced that the Ukrainian armed forces they already have it under control 1000 square kilometers of the territory of the Russian Federation, the first official data provided by Kiev in this regard.
Russian advance in Donetsk
For their part, Russian forces today captured another city in the Donetsk region, where, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, the speed of the Russian advance is increasing, despite the Ukrainian army’s incursion into the Kursk border area.
“On August 12, Russian units liberated the town of Lisichne in the Donetsk People’s Republic thanks to their intense actions,” the Russian military department said, stressing that the armed forces “increased the pace of the offensive” in this sector of the front.
Lishichea small town with only 15 inhabitants, located about 24 kilometers northwest of the old Ukrainian stronghold Avdivkaand is part of the Russian advance towards the Ukrainian bastions Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
Defense took the opportunity to commemorate Russian troops taking control of other cities in Donetsk last week total 19 in the month of July.
Putin has criticized that the main goal of the invasion of Kiev was to stop the offensive in eastern and southern Ukraine, but he has assured that it has accelerated rather than stopped it.
Source: EITB
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