Ukraine believes Russia wants to expel Ukrainian troops occupying part of Russia’s Kursk region before January 20the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration as president of the United States and which intends to also occupy all of Donetsk by that date, where the Russian advance is constant and this Sunday another 120 civilians were evacuated.
Russian President Vladimir Putin “wants to show that he has accomplished, as he said, the task of occupying the entire Donbas, and he needs to expel us from the Kursk front. It has these two tasks“said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a conference.
“I’m sure he wants to expel us before January 20 (from Kursk). It is very important for him to show that he controls the situation“he added.
Since last August, Ukrainian troops have lost territory they occupied in the Russian region, where Putin It concentrates some 50,000 soldiers, including some 11,000 North Koreans, to try to expel kyiv’s forces.
Kursk and neighboring Bryansk were targeted this week by first two ukrainian attacks with long-range missiles of American and British manufacture, after which Moscow launched for the first time an Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile against an arms factory in the eastern Ukrainian region of Dnipro.
This Sunday the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) showed journalists the remains of the Oreshnik.
Despite everything, Ukraine is determined to continue defending their positions in Kursksince maintaining them gives it a certain advantage in an eventual negotiation with Russia.
This Sunday the Russian anti-aircraft batteries 36 Ukrainian drones were shot down over five regions of the country, 27 of them in the skies of Kursk, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Also this Sunday, according to the General Staff of Ukraine, Ukrainian forces destroyed a radar station of an S-400 anti-aircraft missile system.
In a new development, Ukraine said this week that some North Korean soldierswho until now were only in Kursk, were also transferred to Belgorod, which borders the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, although they have not crossed the border.
In Kharkiv, the head of the Regional Military Administration, Oleg Siniegubovtold Ukrainian television this Sunday that the evacuation of the civilian population continues.
Since last May they have moved to almost 22,000 civilians from dangerous areas to safer ones, he indicated.
In the neighboring Donetsk region there are also evacuations underway.
“Throughout the day, 120 people, including 9 children, were evacuated from the front line,” said the head of the Donetsk Miltar AdministrationVadim Filashkin.
It is on this front where the situation remains the most difficult, according to Zelensky.
In its evening war report, the General Staff of Ukraine indicated that during that day there were six attempts to advance in the direction of Toretsk, 16 in the direction of Pokrovsk and 34 attacks in Kurájove.
In Toretsk two women died this Sunday due to the action of Russian troops, according to the regional Prosecutor’s Office.
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