Operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region aims to convince the Russian Federation to enter a fair negotiation process. This was stated by the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak.
“Ukraine is not interested in the occupation of Russian territories. Because Ukraine is conducting an exclusively defensive war strictly within the framework of international law. But if we are talking about potential negotiations, I emphasize, about potential ones, we will have to put the Russian Federation on the contrary. We do not plan to beg at all: “Please, sit down to agree.”
According to him, in addition to economic and diplomatic funds, we are also talking about a “military instrument.” “We need to apply significant tactical defeats to Russia. In the Kursk region, we clearly see how a military instrument is objectively applied to convince the Russian Federation to enter a fair negotiation process. Once again: enter the negotiation process, and not in the traditional propaganda and captaining blackmail” , – said Podolyak.
The situation in the Kursk region
The aggravation of the situation in the border regions of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation began on the morning of August 6, after the Ukrainian army began to conduct an operation in the region. Fierce battles between Russian and Ukrainian troops continue in the border areas, large -scale drones attacks are recorded in the settlements, rocket hazard signals are periodically sounded.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the battles after the APU broke into the Kursk region continued mainly in Korenevsky and Sudzhansky, partially – Belovsky and Logovsky regions of the region.
According to the latest data from the Russian side, as a result of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 12 civilians were killed in the region, more than 120 people were injured. The situation in the region has been recognized as a federal emergency.
In addition, against the backdrop of an exacerbation of the situation in the three Russian regions, the regime of a counter -terrorist operation (KO), which touched the Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk regions, is introduced.
In the meantime, in a number of regions the evacuation of civilians continues. On August 12, the acting governor of the Kursk region Alexei Smirnov reported to Vladimir Putin that out of 180 thousand people subject to evacuation, 121 thousand inhabitants had already left the region.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian side claims that in the Kursk region it was taken under control of 1150 square meters. km of territory and 82 settlements.
On the eve of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the city of Sudzha passed under the control of the Ukrainian army. The Suda gas-measuring station is located near the Russian-Ukrainian border and today remains the only route for the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine to Europe.