Good morning. Ukraine’s top commander says (386 sq miles) of Russia’s bordering Kursk region a week into its surprise incursion, while the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has promised a “worthy response” to the attack. “We continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Kursk region.
Currently, we control about 1,000 sq km of the territory of the Russian Federation,” Oleksandr Syrskyi said in a video published on Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s Telegram account, but provided little other detail. Russia’s acting regional governor of Kursk, Alexei Smirnov, said 121,000 people had fled the region since the start of the fighting and estimated that Kyiv’s forces had advanced through an area 12km deep and 40km wide – about half of the size that Syrskyi claimed. Neither sides’ claims have been independently verified.
As defensive. Zelenskiy said on Monday that Russia had used the Kursk region to launch many strikes. It’s unclear what weapons Ukraine is using, but some western countries are concerned that using their arms within Russia could drag Nato into war with Moscow.
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