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Reporter | An Jing

Editor｜Liu Haichuan

Reporter | An Jing

Editor｜Liu Haichuan

Since August 6, 2024, the Kursk region, a border area between Russia and Ukraine, has been attacked by Ukraine. After nearly a week of fighting, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted for the first time that the Ukrainian army had entered the Russian border area.

Since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Ukraine has launched air strikes on the Russian border many times, and pro-Ukrainian armed forces have also carried out cross-border raids. However, the operation in Kursk Oblast is the first time that the Ukrainian regular army has entered Russian territory on a large scale since the conflict.

Ukraine is facing a shortage of troops, and the unexpected move to attack Russia is seen as a "siege Wei to save Zhao" strategy. Russia launched a fierce attack on Pokrovsk, a strategic city in Donbass in eastern Ukraine, and the Ukrainian army is struggling to defend it.

Russia, on the other hand, has deliberately downplayed the severity of the Ukrainian attack on Kursk, announcing only the launch of an "anti-terrorist military operation" in Kursk and three other states, without requiring members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization of the CIS to conduct collective defense.