Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed for the first time on Monday that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) had been carrying out a military operation in southwestern Russia’s Kursk region all week.

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The main events of August 12 Ukrainian troops are traveling on the T-64 tank in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia, August 11, 2024. Photo: Roman Pilipya / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region is the seventh day. 28 settlements in the Kursk region are under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the acting head of the region said. Zelensky for the first time confirmed that Ukraine was conducting an operation in the Kursk region.

10 minutes to understand what is happening in Kursk region For a week now, the Russian military has been unable to stop the Ukrainian Armed Forces operation in the Kursk region. In the new video, we have collected for you everything that is known about the situation in the region at this point. How is the evacuation of civilians taking place? What has changed in the balance of power? How are the evacuation authorities reacting to the fighting in the Kursk region?

The Sudzha gas metering station. Photo: EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV The Sudzha gas metering station. Photo: EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV The Sudzha gas metering station, which was reportedly captured by Ukrainian forces on Wednesday as their incursion into Russia’s southwestern Kursk region got underway, appears to have been destroyed according to satellite footage published by Radio Liberty on Monday.

Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed for the first time since August 6 that the Ukrainian military is conducting a military operation in the Kursk region. He reported this on his Telegram channel, attaching a video clip from a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters. "The most important thing was the report of Commander-in-Chief Alexander Syrsky regarding our defensive actions at the front and the operation in the Kursk region.

Hungary again threatens to block the supply of weapons to Kyiv. This time in response to Ukrainian sanctions against Lukoil. Can Viktor Orban achieve his own again? Victor Orban. Photo: Neil Hall / EPA-EFE While the Armed Forces of Ukraine holds under the control of the Sudzha gas distribution station in the Kursk region - the only one through which Russian gas is now supplied throughout Ukraine to European countries - another energy scandal is flared up in the EU itself.

Photo: EPA-EFE / GAVRIIL GRIGOROV /SPUTNIK /KREMLIN POOL At a meeting with senior officials to discuss the situation in Russia’s Kursk region on Monday, Vladimir Putin called on the Russian Defence Ministry to “squeeze out” and “dislodge the enemy” from Russian territory, stressing the importance of reliable border protection once that was achieved, state-owned news agency TASS reported .

Main Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the situation in the regions bordering Ukraine. The meeting was attended by Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and other heads of security agencies. Putin held the meeting via video link from Novo-Ogaryovo.

Evacuees from border areas of Russia’s Kursk region at makeshift accommodation in regional capital Kursk. Photo: Anatoly Olshansky No fewer than 200 Russian civilians have been reported missing from villages in Russia’s southwestern Kursk region, amid the continuing incursion into Russian territory by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian independent news outlet Agentstvo reported on Sunday.

How exactly do the APU come in the Kursk region and what goals pursue? Answers - in the materials of the Western media Photo: Russian Defense Ministry / EPA-EFE The Ukrainian army has been storming the Kursk region for a week. Today, the regional authorities admitted that 28 settlements have passed under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But does Kyiv have the task of capturing Russian lands, or is it a distracting maneuver?

The Russian government has just banned the use of smartphones by its forces in Ukraine A Russian serviceman uses his phone in a tank, St. Petersburg, Russia, 27 January 2019.

The war is approaching the Kursk NPP. Are fighting and shelling to a new nuclear threat? General view of the Kursk nuclear power plant. Photo: Ilya Talev / satellite / Imago Images / Scanpix / Leta General view of the Kursk nuclear power plant.

Ukrainian troops have taken control of 28 settlements in the Kursk region, the acting governor of the region, Alexei Smirnov, said at a meeting with Vladimir Putin. “Today, 28 settlements are under enemy control, the depth of penetration into the territory of the Kursk region is 12 kilometers, the width along the front is 40 kilometers,” the official said. According to Smirnov, there were about two thousand people in the captured settlements, their fate is unknown.

The Russian military in Russia’s Kursk region. Photo: Kurskaya oblast / Telegram Russia has redeployed troops towards its southwestern Kursk region in view of the ongoing incursion by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) into the area, The Economist reported on Sunday, citing an unnamed source in the AFU General Staff.