Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed Monday to drive Ukrainian troops from his country’s territory as more civilians were urged to flee the surprise cross-border assault that has left the Kremlin scrambling and seen Kyiv seize back the initiative in the war. Putin’s first major public intervention on the crisis came as battles raged inside Russia…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday addressed his forces’ incursion into the southern Russian region of Kursk for the first time, five days after the offensive was reported to have begun. Zelensky said in his evening video address that the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, updated him on the “advance of the…
Three days into Ukraine’s cross-border attack on Russia’s Kursk region, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Moscow must “feel” the consequences for its invasion of Ukraine. “Russia brought the war to our land and should feel what it has done”, Mr Zelensky said in his Thursday evening address, without directly referencing the Ukrainian offensive. “Ukrainians…
