The region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, August 14. “The situation in our Belgorod region remains extremely difficult and tense due to the shelling of the Ukrainian armed forces. Houses have been destroyed, civilians have died and been injured.”he wrote on Telegram. “In order to ensure increased protection of the population and provide additional support to victims, a state of emergency will be declared at the regional level”starting Wednesday, he added. Follow our live feed.
Ukraine continues its breakthrough. kyiv claims to have conquered 74 localities in the Kursk region, bordering Ukraine. “Inspections and stabilization measures are being carried out there”Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday, August 14, on Telegram. He also assured that “hundreds” Russians had been taken prisoner. Since August 6, the Ukrainian army has been fighting in this region “difficult and intense”according to the head of state.
kyiv claims to have conquered 1,000 square kilometers. Ukrainian army commander Oleksandr Syrsky said his troops had “progressed in some areas by one to three kilometers” during the day, taking control of “40 square kilometers” additional. After a week of rapid advance, the general claims that his soldiers have conquered more than 1,000 square kilometers in Russia.
An operation that will cease if Russia agrees to restore “a just peace.” “Ukraine does not want to annex territories of the Kursk region”assured the spokesman for his diplomacy, Georgiy Tykhy, judging “absolutely legitimate” kyiv’s operations in the face of the Russian occupation of almost 20% of the country. This offensive will stop if Moscow accepts the conditions set by Ukraine: “The sooner Russia agrees to restore a just peace (…), the sooner the incursions of Ukrainian defense forces into Russian territory will cease.”