In the last week, Ukrainian ground forces have crossed the border into Russia, something the Ukrainian authorities only confirmed on Saturday. At the time, Russian authorities had for several days reported attacks by Ukrainian ground forces. On Saturday night, Russian authorities announced a so-called anti-terrorist offensive against the Ukrainian forces. Later the same day, Russia stated that 76,000 inhabitants of Kursk have been evacuated. On Sunday afternoon, the Russian Ministry of Defense claims that they have encountered Ukrainian forces up to 30 kilometers inside Kursk county from the Ukrainian border. Kursk Kursk is both the name of a county and a city in Russia. The county is located southwest of Moscow on the border with Ukraine. The city of Kursk is the administrative center of the county. The county’s population in 2020 was approximately 1.1 million people. The area is best known for the battle around the city of Kursk in July 1943, when the Red Army won a costly, but very important, victory against German forces. Source: Great Norwegian Lexicon. Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide calls the attack inside Russia a smart move. – I think it creates a significant “morale boost” for a hard-pressed Ukrainian people, and quite a lot of chaos on the Russian side, because they probably didn’t see this coming. He believes that the offensive inside Russia can give Ukraine a better starting point at the negotiating table in the future. – It has changed the game in many ways. It does not mean that the whole war has ended. It is still the case that the Russians are hammering further south, at Donetsk for example, but this is an element that probably works in Ukraine’s favour, says Eide. The Minister for Foreign Affairs believes that, according to international law, anyone who is attacked has the full right to defend himself against the attack, also inside the attacker’s territory. When asked whether the fact that the Ukrainians are now possibly using weapons they have received from Norway in the ongoing offensive on Russian soil can affect Norway’s security, Eide replies that he does not comment on how individual weapons that are donated are used, but that “it is well known from media that some modern western equipment is being used in the offensive”. Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide. Photo: Yann Valerievich Belov / news – What will change our security is the outcome of the war itself. For sure it is the case that Russia and Putin somehow close here. If attacking and invading a neighboring country to the west were to be closed, it could add more flavor, and it is, in that case, very serious for us, says Eide. – You call this a new chapter in the war. Could it also be the chapter that can bring an end to the war? – I think it is incredibly important not to speculate, and one should not exaggerate this either. Most of the fighting still takes place on Ukrainian territory. But it is this type of surprise and initiative that sometimes leads to change in wars, Eide replies. news wrote earlier this week that several Ukrainians are tired of war and want to give up land to Russia in order to get peace. Until last week, there was a lot of talk about how far Russia has come into Ukraine, points out Eide. – Now we are in a new situation. That there is now massive criticism internally in Russia, also from pro-Russian military bloggers, that perhaps Chief of Defense Gerasimov has not informed President Putin of the actual situation. It is a type of debate that can also in the long run weaken the Russian will. – But I think we must be prepared for the fact that there may also be Russian punitive measures against Kyiv and other cities, because I think Putin is quite angry about this, says Eide. Father and son killed in Russian air attack on Kyiv A four-year-old boy and his father were killed and three others injured, as a result of a Russian air attack on Kyiv on the night of Sunday. A 13-year-old is among the three wounded in Kyiv, according to a statement from Ukraine’s emergency services in the messaging service Telegram early on Sunday morning. Earlier on Sunday night, Kyiv’s mayor Vitaly Klitschko stated that Russian forces had launched an air strike against the Ukrainian capital. He further stated that Ukrainian air defenses were activated to repel the attack. People the news agency Reuters has spoken to said earlier last night that they had heard the sound of at least two explosions from what was probably an air defense system. The flight alert was also sounded in the Kyiv region, as well as the entire eastern part of Ukraine, early on the night of Sunday. This is reported by the Ukrainian Air Force on Telegram. Ukrainian forces destroyed 53 of 57 attack drones that Russia fired at Ukraine last night, Kyiv’s air defense said on Sunday, writes Reuters. The drones were destroyed over various parts of Ukraine during the attack, which the air force also claims included four North Korean-produced missiles. Explosion in the sky over Kyiv. Photo: Gleb Garanich / Reuters Ukrainian rescuers work in a residential building that was damaged during a Russian airstrike last night. Photo: State emergency of Ukraine / Reuters Rescuers work in a residential building that was damaged during a Russian airstrike. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine / Reuters Several injured in the city of Kursk At least 13 people are said to be injured after being hit by debris from a downed Ukrainian rocket over the city of Kursk last night, according to local authorities. The condition is serious for two of the 13, according to a statement from the acting governor of the Kursk region, Aleksej Smirnov, on the Telegram messaging service on the night of Sunday. Smirnov has published several pictures on Telegram of a block of flats with broken windows and fire damage that is said to have been damaged by the wreckage. The AP news agency has published a photo of residents in a block of flats who they say were injured in the attack. Smirnov also says that he has given orders for a faster evacuation of civilians living in risk-exposed areas in the Belovskyj district south-west of Kursk, writes NTB. In a statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense on Sunday morning, it is stated that 14 Ukrainian drones and four ballistic missiles have been shot down in Kursk. In Voronezh and several other Russian regions, drones have also been intercepted. Photo from the official Telegram account of Kursk mayor Igor Kutsak, shows a fire in a residential building after a rocket attack in Kursk, Russia. Photo: TELEGRAM / @glavaigorkutsak / AFP Russian ambulance workers roll a stretcher with a patient into an ambulance after a Ukrainian rocket is said to have been shot down over the city of Kursk. Photo: AP Russian ambulance workers roll a stretcher with a patient into an ambulance after a Ukrainian rocket is said to have been shot down over the city of Kursk. Photo: AP Published 11.08.2024, at 07.33 Updated 11.08.2024, at 14.37
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