kyiv also said it wanted to create a “buffer zone” to protect itself from bombing in the Kursk region, where its army launched an offensive on August 6.
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Ukraine said on Wednesday, August 14, “move forward” in the Russian border region of Kursk, where its troops have launched an offensive since August 6. kyiv has also assured that it wants to create a “buffer zone” to protect themselves from shelling. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk announced that her army planned to open humanitarian corridors in the Kursk region to facilitate the evacuation of civilians “both towards Russia and Ukraine”.
“We continue to advance in the Kursk region. Since the beginning of the day, we have covered between one and two kilometers in different areas”Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram, while reporting that “more than 100 Russian soldiers captured” Wednesday. In the evening, he repeated that the military is reaching their “strategic objective”.
For its part, the Russian army said it had foiled “attempts” of a deep breakthrough of Ukrainian mobile groups near five localities in the Kursk region, one of which, Levchinka, is located 35 km as the crow flies from Ukraine. Supported by aircraft, drones and artillery, it claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on the Ukrainians. It also released images showing five individuals presented as captured Ukrainian soldiers and others showing four bloodied corpses of soldiers.
In the Russian region of Belgorod, which borders Kursk, a state of emergency was declared Wednesday due to Ukrainian shelling. The Ukrainian incursion has already caused the departure of more than 120,000 people, according to Russia. At least 12 civilians were killed and more than a hundred injured, the authorities of the Kursk region announced on Monday, without providing any new figures since.
