Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends a gathering with organizers of the “Russia” discussion board and exhibition, which celebrates the nation’s main achievements, in Moscow, Russia July 8, 2024.
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Russia President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine on Wednesday of finishing up “yet one more large-scale provocation” on the Russian border.
“As , the Kiev regime has undertaken yet one more large-scale provocation, delivering indiscriminate hearth from varied kinds of weapons, together with missiles, at civilian buildings, residential homes, ambulances,” he mentioned in feedback launched by the Kremlin on the Telegram social media platform.
The remark comes after Russia’s protection ministry on Tuesday claimed that 300 Ukrainian “militants” had launched a cross-border assault into the Russian area of Kursk, utilizing tanks and armored automobiles.
On this pool {photograph} distributed by Russian state owned Sputnik company, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (R) flanked by Russia’s Defence Minister Andrei Belousov (2nd L) and director of the Federal Safety Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bortnikov (third L) together with the Secretary of the Safety Council of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu take heed to Chief of the Normal Employees of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Valery Gerasimov (L) seen on a display screen as he remotely joins a gathering with heads of regulation enforcement companies to deal with the state of affairs within the Kursk area, in Moscow, on August 7, 2024.
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The Russian protection ministry mentioned on Wednesday that its forces and Russian border authorities “have been destroying armed formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the past evening in Kursk area’s areas instantly adjoining to the Russian–Ukrainian border.”
“Air and missile strikes, artillery hearth in addition to items of the State Border Masking Drive prevented the enemy from advancing deep into the territory of the Russian Federation,” the ministry mentioned.
In a Google-translated replace on Telegram, Kursk’s Performing Governor Alexey Smirnov mentionedTuesday that two individuals had died and that 13 others have been injured, in what he described as “huge shelling” of the area by Ukraine, significantly targeted across the metropolis of Sudzha.
This picture launched by the performing Governor of Kursk area Alexei Smirnov telegram channel , exhibits a broken home after shelling by the Ukrainian facet within the metropolis of Sudzha, Kursk area that borders Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024.
Governor of Kursk area telegram channel by way of AP
CNBC was unable to confirm the claims and Ukraine has not publicly commented on the assaults. CNBC has reached out to Ukraine’s protection ministry for remark.
President Putin acknowledged Thursday that he would meet with safety chiefs and protection and regulation enforcement companies to debate the state of affairs in Kursk, including that he would additionally meet members of the protection ministry and FSB safety service’s border company.
