KREMLIN EVACUATED 76,000 RESIDENTS OF THE KURSK REGION AMID FIGHTING WITH UKRAINE

Sun 11 August 2024:

The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said Saturday that more than 76,000 residents were evacuated from the Kursk region where fighting with Ukrainian troops entered a fifth day.

Residents of settlements located near the border with Ukraine and the area where clashes are ongoing were placed in points of temporary accommodation, ministry spokesman Artyom Sharov said at a news conference in Kursk.

He said 60 temporary accommodation points for those leaving territories bordering Ukraine have been organized in eight regions, including Kursk.

Overnight Aug. 5 – 6, Ukraine intensified shelling in the Kursk region. The artillery barrage was followed by an incursion of Ukrainian infantry, supported by tanks and armored vehicles, near the city of Sudzha.

Late Friday, Russia’s Lipetsk region adjacent to Kursk suffered a massive drone attack, which killed one person, set a military airfield on fire and damaged energy infrastructure, according to authorities.

Early Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that fighting in the Kursk region continued, noting that Russian aviation carried out strikes on Ukraine’s positions and engaged tank units.

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Russia to deliver ‘tough response’ to Ukraine’s border attacks: Zakharova

Maria Zakharova, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, says: “A tough response from the Russian army will not be long in coming.”

The threat was issued shortly after officials in the Russian city of Kursk said 13 people were injured when debris from a destroyed Ukrainian missile fell onto a nine-storey residential building there.

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What is happening in Kursk?

Ukraine launched a surprise offensive in Kursk on Tuesday in the most significant attack across the border since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
On Saturday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledged that Ukrainian forces were fighting in Kursk, saying the operation was part of Kyiv’s attempt to “restore justice”.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said more troops and munitions are being deployed in the border area before a possible counteroffensive.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the incursion a “large-scale provocation” by Ukraine, and the military’s chief of staff ,Valery Gerasimov, promised to crush it.
Russian authorities declared a “federal-level” state of emergency in Kursk.
Ukraine announced it has evacuated 20,000 people from the Sumy region, which sits across the border from Kursk, as the fighting in the area intensified.

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