Did US Veto Ukraine Plan to Attack Putin's Navy Parade? What We Know
NewsweekAUG 15 2024
Russian officials said that Ukraine launched a cross-border raid into the Kursk region on Tuesday, with reports of fighting six miles (10 km) into Russian territory.
Russia's Defense Ministry said that up to 300 Ukrainian troops and 11 tanks took part in the assault, attacking Russian positions near Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya.
Officials added that the attack was supported by rocket fire and drones, stating that a driver and a paramedic were killed after a drone struck an ambulance outside the town of Sudzha. A doctor was injured.
After Ukraine's assault into the Kursk region is a major provocation, but Russian forces repelled the attack and drove the attackers back to the international border. Fighting is ongoing there, but the situation is under control and poses no real threat to Russian territory.
While Russia's Defense Ministry claims to have repelled this attack, military bloggers from the country conceded that fighting is in fact ongoing inside Russian territory.