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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 11, 2024, p. 17
kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that the incursion of Ukrainian troops into Russia – which began five days ago – is aimed at displacement of war to the aggressor’s territory.
Today (yesterday), Commander-in-Chief Oleksander Sirskii has informed me several times about the situation at the front and our actions.he said in the first direct admission of his country’s involvement in that offensive.
Zelensky thanked to every unit of our defence forces that makes this happen. Ukraine is proving that it really knows how to restore justice and ensure exactly the kind of pressure needed on the aggressor..
Meanwhile, kyiv’s navy and military intelligence attacked and damaged an old gas platform used by Russian forces in the Black Sea, as Russia began a anti-terrorist operation to stop the incursion of Ukrainian troops, including those to evacuate 76,000 inhabitants of the Kursk region.
Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmitry Pletenchuk said on social media that The occupants used this place to falsify the GPS (satellite locator) in order to make civil navigation dangerous.therefore We can’t allow it.
He also posted a video showing an explosion on an offshore platform and the subsequent fire, adding that half a day before the offensive, Russian forces had stationed their military equipment and personnel in the area. There were no civilians there.Pletenchuk reported.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said fighting in the Kursk region was continuing and its military had launched airstrikes against rival forces, including the use of a thermobaric bomb that causes a shock wave and creates a vacuum that suffocates its targets.
Armed forces continue to repel attempted invasion by Ukrainian armed forcesthe ministry said yesterday, adding that the intense fighting is centered around Malaya Loknya, Olgovka and Ivashkovskoye, settlements located between 10 and 20 kilometers inside Russia.
The measures announced for Kursk and the neighbouring regions of Belgorod and Bryansk, which share a border with Ukraine, allow the Russian government to relocate the population, monitor telephone communications and seize vehicles, experts said.
NATO warns of Russian overflight in the Baltic
Fighter jets from Sweden and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization also escorted a Russian patrol plane over the Baltic Sea after discovering that the aircraft had not made contact with civilian air traffic.
Moscow did not immediately respond to the incident, but Russian defense officials said all flights by Moscow’s military aviation were conducted in strict accordance with international standards for the use of airspace.