General Claims Ukrainian Forces Control 380 Square Miles of Russian Territory

Published on August 13, 2024

Ukraine’s top military commander on Monday said that Kyiv’s forces control about 380 square miles of Russia’s Kursk region following a cross-border invasion, while Russian President Vlaidimir Putin vowed to push them out. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy published a video of top military leader Oleksandr Syrskyi delivering a report on the fighting in Kursk. “We continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Kursk region. Currently, we control about 1,000 square kilometers of the territory of the Russian Federation,” he said in the video. Russia’s acting governor of Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, said through state-run media that Ukraine controlled 28 settlements with 2,000 civilians, and the incursion was about 8 miles deep and 3o miles wide. About 180,000 people will be evacuated and resettled from the region, and about 120,000 have already left, he said....

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