
Ukraine Military Allegedly Enters Russian Region
Published on August 7, 2024
Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, accused Ukrainian troops of crossing the border into the Kursk region, marking the possible first incursion of its kind by Ukraine in Russia since the start of the war. Ukrainian forces “attacked the positions of the units covering the State Border of the Russian Federation in the areas of the settlements of Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya in the Kursk region” near the Russian–Ukrainian border, north of Kharkiv in Ukraine, said the Russian ministry in a social media post on Tuesday. It said that 300 soldiers, 11 tanks, and 20 combat vehicles from the Ukrainian 22nd Mechanized Brigade were involved in the attack....
