Volodymyr Zelensky’s troops are carrying out “combat operations” in the Russian border region of Kursk this Tuesday, according to the Ukrainian army general staff.
At the same time, the Ukrainian president renewed in a video message his intention to do everything to advance negotiations around Ukraine’s possible accession to the European Union.
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The Ukrainian army announced on Tuesday that it was “combat operations” in the Russian border region of Kursk, striking in particular “a military command post”after having deleted in its press release any mention of “new offensive operations” which she had initially spoken about.
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The Ukrainian army announced yesterday that it was carrying out “combat operations” in the Russian border region of Kursk, notably striking “a military command post”, after having deleted in its press release any mention of “new offensive operations” which it had spoken initially.
“This strike is an integral part of the combat operations of the units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, which carry out combat operations on the territory of the Russian Federation,” the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army simply indicated in this press release. published in English on Telegram.
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“This strike is an integral part of the combat operations of the units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, which carry out combat operations on the territory of the Russian Federation”simply indicated the general staff of the Ukrainian army in this press release published in English on Telegram.
We could read in a first version of the press release a few minutes earlier: “(…) the Ukrainian ground forces which are currently beginning new offensive operations” in the Kursk region, a formulation which was later deleted.
On Sunday, the Russian army reported a new Ukrainian offensive in this region, where the Ukrainian military has controlled several hundred square kilometers since August 2024, despite attempts to dislodge them from Russian troops, supported in this sector by soldiers North Koreans, according to kyiv and the West.
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