Ukraine has revealed that Russia can end its offensive in the Kursk region and potentially bring the end of the war closer.
A spokesperson for Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry stated that “the faster Russia accepts” peace, the faster “Ukrainian incursions into Russian territory will cease,” he told RBK Ukraine.
Newsweek reached out to Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry via email for comment.
On August 6, the Armed Forces of Ukraine introduced an incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. This is the cross-border attack on Russian soil since World War II.
The marvelous offensive is “humiliating” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Kremlin critic Bill Browder.
Newsweek contacted a Kremlin representative via email for comment.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Ukraine’s attacks on Russian territory are “absolutely legitimate” actions, adding that the country’s forces “must liberate those border territories” to prevent attacks. The Russian attacks, RBK Ukraine reports.
Heorhii Tykhyi, Ukraine’s foreign affairs spokesman, said Tuesday that “Ukraine is not interested in taking territory in the Kursk region, it needs it to save the lives of our people. “
Tykhyi: “If Ukraine could attack enemy troops on its territory, from where they threaten Ukraine, then Ukraine would be in a much greater position for itself. “
Tykhyi also said Kursk’s incursion into Ukraine would have been “less necessary” if Kyiv had relied on United States’ long-range capabilities, which have lately been banned due to a U. S. stipulation not to use such weapons to strike deep into Russian territory.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday described the operation as a “catastrophe” for Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said Kyiv controlled about 380 square miles of Russian territory. This claim has been independently verified.
On Monday night, in reaction to the Kursk incursion, Zelensky told the BBC that “Russia brought the war to others and now it’s going home. “
The BBC reported that the Russian government was evacuating citizens from and around the Kursk region.
The acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, said around 121,000 more people had been evacuated from their homes, according to the BBC.
This comes as court records show an increase in defections from the Russian military.
According to independent Russian media, Russian courts have won more cases of infantrymen accused of leaving their places without permission in 2024 than those registered in all of 2023.
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