Russia Ukraine struggle newest: Kyiv controls 1,000 sq km in Kursk as Zelensky says struggle ‘coming home’ to Putin | EUROtoday

Earlier, we reported that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky introduced in a video message that the struggle is “coming home” to Russia, in a reference to the Kursk assault launched per week in the past as we speak.

Below, now we have his full assertion, by which he linked the sinking of the Kursk submarine that killed greater than 100 folks in 2000 and the shock assault in Kursk this week.

“We see how Russia really moves in the times of Putin: 24 years ago, there was the Kursk disaster – the symbolic beginning of his rule; and now we can see what the end for him is. And it is also Kursk. The disaster of his war,” Mr Zelensky wrote.

“This always happens to those who despise people and any rules. Russia brought war to others, and now it is coming home. Ukraine has always wished only for peace, and we will definitely ensure peace.

“I thank everyone who helps! Glory to all those who fight, who work for Ukraine!

Russian evacuees relocated from areas in the border region of Kursk, where Ukrainian forces have staged a week-long incursion, as well as next door Belgorod, have been pictured in makeshift tents away from the fighting.

At least 76,000 citizens have been evacuated from Kursk, according to official estimates, while thousands more were moved from the nearby Russian region of Belgorod as well, after Ukrainian forces marched into Kursk last Tuesday in a surprise attack.

Vladimir Putin has called the assault a provocation and vowed a “worthy response”. Ukraine says Russians mustn’t complain; Moscow has perpetrated significantly extra widespread assaults towards them for greater than a decade.

Earlier, we reported preliminary accounts that greater than three dozen drones had been fired by Russia into Ukraine in a single day. Two ballistic missiles had been additionally used within the assault.

We can now affirm that that assault injured one individual and broken civilian infrastructure.

Sumy regional authorities in northeast Ukraine stated the assault injured one individual and broken an influence line and a gasoline pipeline, leaving some residents of town of Sumy with out electrical energy and gasoline provides.

The assault additionally broken a hospital constructing and a number of other vehicles within the area, the authorities stated.

In neighbouring Chernihiv, regional governor Vyacheslav Chaus stated the assault focused civilian infrastructure and reported no casualties within the northern area.

Regional officers within the central area of Vinnytsia stated the assault broken a residential constructing with no casualties reported.

The assault additionally broken a constructing within the Mykolaiv area, in accordance with regional governor Vitaliy Kim.

Below are among the newest images from the frontline in Ukraine, within the Sumy area, from the place Ukrainian forces have staged a cross-border assault into Russia.

US Republican senator Lindsey Graham known as Ukraine‘s shock cross-border operation into Russia’s Kursk area “brilliant” and “bold” in a go to to Kyiv, and he urged the Biden administration to supply Ukraine with the weapons it wants.

“What do I think about Kursk? Bold, brilliant, beautiful. Keep it up,” he advised reporters. Graham made the feedback throughout a go to to Kyiv with Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal.

“Bottom line is to the administration… Give them weapons they need to win the war they can’t afford to lose,” he added. During the assembly with the Senate delegation, president Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the US for help.

“We discussed what exactly is needed to bring this war to a just end, including our need to use long-range weapons,” he stated later in a put up on X.

With Russia nonetheless struggling to repel the Ukrainian incursion seven days after it started, Ukraine’s prime commander stated Kyiv managed round 1,000 sq km within the Kursk area.

Russia’s air defence models destroyed 14 drones that Ukraine launched in a single day focusing on Kursk, Voronezh and Belgorod area, Russia’s information companies reported this morning.

Of these, 12 drones had been destroyed over the border area of Kursk, and one every over Voronezh and Belgorod areas, RIA company reported citing Russia’s defence ministry.

There was no data offered on what number of drones in complete Ukraine had launched in a single day.

Russia launched 38 assault drones and two Iskander-M ballistic missiles at Ukraine in a single day, Ukraine’s air drive stated this morning.

Of this complete, 30 drones had been destroyed over a number of Ukrainian areas, the air drive stated on Telegram. It was not clear what occurred to the air weapons that weren’t destroyed.

As of 4.20am GMT, all of Ukraine was underneath new air raid alerts with the specter of contemporary air assaults, the air drive added in a separate Telegram assertion.