According to the President, the operation in Kursk region has helped stabilize the situation in the Kharkiv direction.
Volodymyr Zelensky
Following a meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the operation of the Defense Forces in Kursk region will become an important part of the negotiation process.
This is reported by Ukrinform.
“Tomorrow there will be another operation on Kursk directly. A very important operation. You will also see, once we get to the diplomatic end of the war, what kind of minds the Russians will have before Ukraine before Kursk directly. This is a very important man. I don’t like to throw around such words as “historical”. respectful. “And I am committed to all warriors to defend our territory just like the Kursk operation,” Zelensky said.
According to the words of the head of state, ZSU fighters “are stably hovering there (in Kursk region, – ed.) situation, and will continue to affect them in the future.”
“The Russians have really big expenses there. Their stinks are greatly underestimated. Their Koreans (militaries from Pivnichny Korea – ed.) are running away, but they are not the same,” the President said.
In addition, the Defense Forces managed to hit several important targets in the Kursk region using long-range weapons.
“We hit several very important military control points. And these are very serious steps. They are important. And I think that they will not be able to push us out of this magnetic, and these are thousands, and these are thousands, and this is a lot. direction in the near future,” the President said.
Also, according to the President, the operation in the Kursk region made it possible to stabilize the situation in the Kharkiv region.
Events in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation
- On August 6 this year, Russia announced a border breach in the Kursk region. At first, it claimed the attempt had failed and that its FSB had contained the operation, but even its pro-war bloggers reported a loss of control.
- Andrey Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, said that day that Russian claims about border control in the Kursk region were untrue. It was the first and only comment by a Ukrainian official on the subject.
- On August 7, the Russians reported that the fighting was continuing. Evacuation was announced from some settlements. No one denied the fact of the border breakthrough, including Vladimir Putin, who urgently convened the government and, according to Russian media, the security council. Comments on the Kursk region, although rather vague, began to be heard from the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, Mykhailo Podolyak.
- According to Deep State, Russia lost several settlements on the first day of the operation. This month, Volodymyr Zelensky reported that the Defense Forces are holding back a fairly significant group of Russian troops – 50 thousand personnel of the occupier's army, who, thanks to the Kursk operation, cannot be sent to other directions of Russia's attacks on our territory. The Russian Federation also pulled troops there from the DPRK. A source in the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told LB.ua that the enemy was planning an offensive on Zaporizhia in late October – early November, concentrated significant forces in this direction, but was forced to abandon the plans.