Officials in Moscow have vowed to impose a “tough response” as a large Ukrainian offensive inside Russian territory entered a sixth day. Foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused Ukraine of “intimidating the peaceful population of Russia” with the offensive, which began on Tuesday. Kyiv’s forces have now advanced up to 30km inside Russia, in what…
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…
Ukrainian troops remained in Russia’s western Kursk region on Friday night, as its surprise cross-border offensive into Russia came to the end of a fourth day. The Russian defence ministry said it was “continuing to repel” Ukraine’s military, which it claimed had lost more than 280 personnel in the past 24 hours – a figure…
President Volodymyr Zelensky has made his first comments on the advance of Ukrainian troops into the Russian border region of Kursk. “Russia brought the war to our land, and it should feel what it has done,” Zelensky said in his evening video message. He did not mention the fighting by Ukrainian soldiers on Russian territory…
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…
