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Ukrainian troops invaded Russia: Zelensky's gamble to gain bargaining chips in peace talks

2024-08-12

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In the past six days, the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield has changed significantly.

In the early morning of August 6, the Ukrainian army entered the Kursk region on the western border of Russia. By the 11th, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that it had stopped the Ukrainian army's advance near the village of Obshchy Kolodez in southwestern Russia. The village is about 30 kilometers away from the Russian-Ukrainian border, which means that the Ukrainian army has penetrated about 30 kilometers into the Russian mainland in six days.

On August 11, a residential building was damaged by Ukrainian shelling in the Kursk region of Russia.

This is also the largest cross-border attack launched by Ukraine against Russia in the two and a half years since the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

After Russia launched a massive attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in May this year to gain the initiative on the battlefield, Ukraine's counterattack this time is quite like "encircling Wei to save Zhao". A senior Ukrainian official said in an interview with AFP on the evening of the 10th that the goal of the Ukrainian army's attack this time is to expand the front line that the Russian army needs to deal with, andCause huge losses to Russia's border areas in order to undermine Russia's domestic "stability"

On August 9, Ukrainian soldiers rode BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles in the Sumy region.