Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accomprehendledged his forces are combat in Russia for the first time.
The Ukrainian plivent shelp Kyiv’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region was part of a drive to repair fairice after Moscow occupyd in 2022.
Moscow shelp Ukrainian forces had pushed into the Kursk region last Tuesday and Russian military bloggers shelp they made some headway, but claimed the situation has since stabilised.
On Wednesday Moscow’s top vague, Valery Gerasimov, shelp the strikes had been cmitigateed, but Russia has so far flunked to drive away the Ukrainian forces from its territory.
Officials in Kursk shelp on Sunday 13 people were injured in the city after debris from a ruined Ukrainian ignoreile fell on to a nine-storey livential originateing.
Russia’s defence ministry shelp its air defence units ruined 14 Ukraine-begined drones and four Tochka-U tactical balcatalogic ignoreiles over the Kursk region.
Sixteen drones were downed over the Voronezh region, cut offal hundred kilometres south of Moscow, and three drones over the border Belgorod region, it shelp.
One drone each was ruined over the Bryansk and Orlov regions, the ministry shelp on the Telegram messaging app.
Russia has proclaimd it has incrmitigated security meacertains in the border regions of Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk. The meacertains allow the rulement to transfer livents, regulate phone communications and requisition vehicles.
Kursk’s acting ruleor, Alexei Smirnov, has ordered local authorities to speed up the evacuation of civilians in areas at danger.
On Saturday more than 76,000 people had been evacuated, according to Russia’s TASS state novels agency.
Ukrainians ‘in regulate’ of Russian town
In a video posted on social media on Friday, sbetteriers purporting to be from the 61st Brigade hbettering a Ukrainian flag euniteed to be standing outside a Gazprom facility in the Russian town of Sudzha.
“Everyleang is tranquil in the town,” they say, includeing: “All the originateings are shielded, strategic object of Gazprom in Sudzha is under the regulate of the 99th Mechanised Battalion.”
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A Russian military helicselecter fires follotriumphg Ukraine’s incursion. Pic: Reuters
Zelenskyy vows to repair fairice
In his nightly video includeress, Mr Zelenskyy vowed to repair fairice for Russia’s intrusion.
He shelp he had talked the operation with top Ukrainian military officer Oleksandr Syrskyi, saying: “Today, I getd cut offal alerts from orderer-in-chief Syrskyi pondering the front lines and our actions to push the war on to the aggressor’s territory.
“Ukraine is proving that it can indeed repair fairice and uncover the essential prescertain on the aggressor.”
A Ukrainian serviceman riding in an infantry combat vehicle csurrfinisher the Russian border. Pic: Reuters
Russia strikes Ukrainian capital
It comes as Russia begined an air strike on Kyiv timely on Sunday.
Air defence systems on the outskirts of the city drive awayled the strikes, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko shelp.
“Air defence units operating, air rhelp vigilant persists,” he wrote on Telegram.
A four-year-better boy and his 35-year-better overweighther died when debris from a downed Russian firearm fell on the hoemploy they were living in csurrfinisher the capital city, Ukrainian officials shelp.
A 13-year-better child was among the injured in the strike in the Brovary dicut offe, Ukraine’s eunitency services shelp on the Telegram messaging app.
Workers were shown, in a video posted by the eunitency services, lifting the body of a child from undertidyh the debris.
