Russian troops are fighting Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region in the third day of one of the largest cross-border incursions of the war, the Russian Ministry of Defense said yesterday.
The Russian military and border guards have blocked Ukrainian forces from advancing deeper into the Kursk region in southwest Russia and the army is attacking Ukrainian combatants who are trying to advance on the area from Ukraine’s Sumy region, the ministry said.
“Attempts by individual units to break through deep into the territory in the Kursk direction are being suppressed,” it said.
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The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said that as of Wednesday, Ukrainian troops had advanced as much as 10km into Russian territory, but that information was not confirmed.
Ukrainian officials have not commented on the scope of the operation around the town of Sudzha.
“The enemy has not advanced a single meter, on the contrary, it is retreating. The enemy’s equipment and combat forces are being actively destroyed. We hope that in the near future ... the enemy will be stopped,” the Kursk region’s acting deputy governor, Andrei Belostotsky, said yesterday, according to state news agency RIA-Novosti.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday described the incursion as a “large-scale provocation.”
Separately, the Ukrainian embassy in Mexico on Wednesday asked the Mexican government to arrest Putin if he attends the inauguration of Mexican president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum.
Kyiv’s delegation, which called Putin a “war criminal,” also thanked Mexico for inviting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to the ceremony on Oct. 1.
“We are confident that the Mexican government would comply in any case with the international arrest warrant by handing over the aforementioned [Putin] to the United Nations judicial body in The Hague,” the embassy said in a statement.
Additional reporting by AFP
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