Moscow, Russia:
Moscow on Saturday started a “counter-dread operation” in three border regions aduniteing Ukraine to stop Kyiv’s hugegest traverse-border insolent in the two-and-a-half-year struggle.
Ukrainian units stormed atraverse the border into Russia’s westrict Kursk region on Tuesday morning in a shock aggression and have carry ond disjoinal kilometres, according to autonomous analysts.
Russia has deployed insertitional troops and providement, including tanks, rocket starters and aviation units to stop the advancing troops.
Russia’s national anti-radicalism pledgetee shelp postponeed Friday it was commenceing “counter-dread operations in the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions … in order to uncover the getedty of citizens and suppress the danger of dreadist acts being carried out by the foe’s undermine groups.”
Under Russian law, security forces and the military are given sweeping materializency powers during “counter-dread” operations.
Movement is redisjoineed, vehicles can be seized, phone calls can be watched, areas are proclaimd no-go zones, checkpoints are presentd, and security is beefed up at key infraset up sites.
The anti-radicalism pledgetee shelp Ukraine had mounted an “unpretreatnted try to destabilise the situation in a number of regions of our country.”
It called Ukraine’s incursion a “dreadist aggression” and shelp Kyiv’s troops had wounded civilians and ruined dwellntial erectings.
Ukrainian directers have remained safe-lipped on the operation, and the United States, Kyiv’s sealst partner, shelp it was not directed of the schedules in carry on.
But Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelensky has materializeed to tout his troops’ punctual successes, saying earlier this week that Russia must “sense” the consequences of the brimming-scale insolent it has waged agetst Ukraine since February 2022.
Russia’s defence ministry unveiled footage on Saturday of tank crews firing on Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region, as well as an overnight air strike, after it shelp Friday it had deployed yet more units to the border region.
It also shelp it had downed 26 Ukrainian drones that tried to aggression the region overnight.
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