A HUMILIATING video shows the moment when despot Vladimir Putin is speechless when army leaders told him that Russia had been invaded.
The tyrant had a pale face at a very important meeting with senior generals where he was told that 1,000 Ukrainian infantrymen had crossed the border.
Putin on Wednesday lashed out at Ukraine’s “large-scale provocation” in the Kursk border region.
The head of the Russian army, General Valery Gerasimov, was forced to confront the despot in an assembly and admit that a significant part of the region’s territory had been lost.
The elderly despot, 71, was furious as he demanded an update on the situation.
Stunning photographs show him at the head of a long table, flanked by his friends in the Kremlin.
On a screen at the other end of the room, General Gerasimov says: “Units of the Ukrainian armed forces, numbering up to 1,000, went on the offensive to occupy part of the territory of the Sudzhinsky district of the Kursk region.
“Thanks to the movements of units covering the national border, border guards and reinforcement units, air strikes, missile forces and artillery fire, the enemy’s advance into the depths of the territory in the direction of the city of Kursk has been stopped. “
He then told Putin that one hundred Ukrainian infantrymen had been killed and 215 wounded.
“Fifty-four armored vehicles and seven tanks were destroyed,” he said.
“The operation will conclude by defeating the enemy and reaching the state border. “
Russia has tried to pretend that the situation is under control, despite reports of Kiev’s success.
Hundreds of Ukrainian troops along with dozens of tanks and armored vehicles began the bold attack Tuesday night.
It is believed that they plowed about 10 miles deep and six miles wide.
Putin, sullen, became angry: “As you know, the kyiv regime has undertaken a large-scale provocation.
“It is firing indiscriminately with other weapons, in addition to rockets, at civilian buildings, residential homes and ambulances. “
This is the first successful large-scale offensive carried out across Ukraine after months of being in a defensive position on the front line.
kyiv officials have not yet officially commented on the operation.
Ukraine’s aims have not been clear, but the Russians are concerned that the aim is to succeed at the Kursk nuclear power plant, a primary strategic asset of Russia.
Thousands of Russians are evacuating the domain as Putin’s military and security forces complain they have failed them.
The city of Sudzha is partially under Ukrainian control and almost surrounded by Ukrainian forces.
A close friend of Putin, former President Dmitry Medvedev, lashed out at Ukraine for the incursion – which surprised Moscow – and demanded that Russia respond by crushing Ukraine.
It is now “necessary” to “mercilessly defeat and destroy the enemy” and mount an all-out invasion, he said.
“From now on, (the war) will have to acquire a blatantly extraterritorial character.
“This is no longer just an operation to recover our official territories and punish the Nazis (Ukrainians).
“We can and will have to move to the lands of the Ukraine that still exists. In Odessa, in Kharkiv, in Dnipro, in Mykolaiv (all cities are now owned by Ukraine).
“There are no restrictions in the sense that no one can identify the secure borders of the Ukrainian Reich.
“And now we can and will have to communicate it openly, without shame.
“Let everyone, including the English bastards, realize this: we will only prevent when it is convenient and favorable for us. “
Alexei Smirnov, governor of the Kursk Oblast in Russia, claimed that Ukrainian forces stormed the Sudzha and Korenevo districts of the Kursk Oblast.
Telegram channels connected to the Russian Defense Ministry said Ukrainian forces captured the villages of Nikolaevo-Darino, Sverdlikovo and Oleshnya and took up positions in those border areas.
The furthest village believed to have been captured is about 4 kilometers from the Russian border.
Other reports claim that Ukrainian troops have also engaged with Gogolevka and Goncharovka in Russia.
Ukraine has yet to comment on those primary advances.
The Russian military said Ukraine sent several tanks and armored fighting vehicles across the northeastern border on August 6 in a “massive attack. “
This is the same region that Ukraine-backed rebels attacked in a double attack in March.
By James Halpin, Foreign News Reporter
Ukraine has attacked Russia itself several times since Russia invaded its neighbor in February 2022.
The moves included both attacks on the ground with tanks and troops, as well as the use of long-range missiles.
In March, rebels from the Russian Freedom Legion (FRL), the Siberian Battalion (SB), and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) supporting Ukraine introduced an attack.
In May last year, the Free Russian Legion attacked the country as it sought to “build a free Russia. “
None of the incursions thus managed to seize land, and the invaders were repelled or withdrawn.
Ultimately, they seek to test Russian forces, attack Russia in unprotected areas, and destroy infrastructure such as logistics centers, ammunition depots, or disrupt Russian events.
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