KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned Moscow’s newest lethal assault on civilian areas of Kyiv and urged his Western allies to elevate restrictions on using weapons deep within Russia, at the same time as he for the primary time not directly acknowledged his forces’ cross-border offensive in Russia’s Kursk area.
“The Russians haven’t any geographical restrictions on using such weapons — because the first days of the full-scale warfare, all the territory of our state has been underneath fixed menace of assault,” Zelenskiy wrote on X on August 11.
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“Ukrainians are deeply grateful to all our companions who present us with air protection methods and fight plane. Nevertheless, to really cease Russian terror, we want…robust choices from our companions — choices that may elevate restrictions on our defensive actions.”
“When Ukraine’s long-range capabilities haven’t any limits, this warfare will certainly have a restrict — we’ll actually carry its simply finish nearer,” he wrote.
Late on August 10, Zelenskiy not directly confirmed what Russian navy bloggers and Western information companies had reported on Ukrainian forces’ advances inside Russia’s Kursk area.
“As we speak, I obtained a number of reviews from Commander-in-Chief [Oleksandr] Syrskiy concerning the entrance strains, our actions, and the push to drive the warfare onto the aggressor’s territory.”
Ukraine continued its six-day advance into the Kursk area, taking management of a number of smaller settlements, nevertheless it remained unclear if Kyiv’s forces would try to take Kursk metropolis, the regional capital of 415,000 folks.
It additionally stays unclear what number of Ukrainian troops are concerned within the drive, with estimates starting from 1,100 to “a number of thousand.”
Russian officers have acknowledged the breach of the border and ordered the evacuation of tens of hundreds of civilians within the space, however have referred to Kyiv’s troops within the area as “Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance teams.”
Ukraine’s shock cross-border incursion in Kursk on August 6 has been described as the largest assault on Russian soil since Moscow launched its unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Russia on August 10 introduced that it had imposed what it referred to as anti-terror measures within the Kursk, Bryansk, and Belgorod areas.
The Nationwide Anti-Terrorism Committee stated in a press release that the measures included the attainable evacuation of residents, limits on transport, beefed-up safety round delicate websites, and wire faucets.
As tensions rose on August 11, Russian ally Belarus stated it had begun transferring tanks to its border space with Ukraine after it claimed it had shot down a number of Ukrainian navy drones over its airspace.
Belarus’s authoritarian ruler, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, ordered that reinforcements be despatched to the border areas to reply to any “provocations” from Ukraine.
Russian forces launched missile assaults in a single day on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, killing not less than two folks, Ukrainian authorities stated on August 11.
The State Emergency Service stated a 35-year-old man and his 4-year-old son have been discovered useless within the rubble of a constructing throughout search-and-rescue operations. Three others, together with a 13-year-old little one, have been severely wounded within the assault, it added.
Fragments of a missile fell on residential buildings within the Brovary district, neighboring the capital. Kyiv’s navy administration stated the town’s air-defense methods had been activated.
5 different areas have been being attacked by Russian drones, in accordance with Ukraine’s air pressure.
Cities throughout Ukraine have been recurrently hit by Russian air strikes from missiles and drones. There was rising concern amongst many Ukrainians in latest days that Moscow may intensify its air raids in response to Kyiv’s latest incursion into Russian territory.
In Russia, Kursk regional Governor Aleksei Smirnov stated 13 folks had been injured by particles from a downed Ukrainian missile that fell on a residential constructing in the course of the evening. Two of the injured have been in critical situation, Smirnov stated on August 11.
Residents of the nine-story constructing have been to be evacuated to momentary lodging, in accordance with Igor Kutsak, mayor of the regional capital, Kursk metropolis.
The entire metropolis was underneath an air-raid alert, the official stated on Telegram. He posted a photograph that confirmed an condo constructing with blown out home windows and broken balconies.
Within the neighboring Voronezh area, Russian authorities claimed that particles from a downed Ukraine-launched drone broken an administrative constructing and a utility facility within the provincial capital of the identical identify. There have been no accidents, they added.
Russia’s Protection Ministry stated on August 11 that its air-defense items destroyed 16 Ukrainian-lunched drones over the Voronezh area, whereas 14 drones and 4 Tochka-U tactical ballistic missiles have been downed over the Kursk area.
Three drones have been downed over the Belgorod area, which borders Ukraine, and one drone every was destroyed over the Bryansk and Orlov areas, the ministry stated on Telegram.
The claims can’t be independently verified.