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Ukraine's top commander said Ukrainian forces control 1,000 square kilometers of Russian territory after a week of fierce fighting. Commander Alexander Selsky said Ukraine will continue "offensive operations in the region" seven days after launching an offensive in the Kursk region.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on the 12th that the Ukrainian army's attack on the Kursk region, which led to the evacuation of more than 100,000 civilians, was an attempt by Ukraine to stop Moscow's offensive in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and gain leverage in possible future peace talks.

Putin believes that Ukraine may have hoped to cause public unrest in Russia through this attack, but failed to achieve this goal. "It is obvious that the enemy will continue to try to destabilize the border areas and undermine the political situation inside our country." He said that due to the attack, the number of volunteers joining the Russian army has increased, and said that regardless, the Russian army is continuing its offensive into eastern Ukraine.

The Ukrainian operation in the Kursk region was carried out in strict secrecy and its targets remain unclear, but it could be the largest attack on Russian territory by an outside force since World War II.

Alexey Smirnov, acting governor of Kursk, said Ukrainian troops had advanced 12 kilometers into the Kursk region on a 40-kilometer front and now controlled 28 Russian settlements. He also said that about 121,000 people had been evacuated or left the areas affected by the fighting on their own. Smirnov added that it was difficult to track all the mobile Ukrainian troops roaming the region, noting that some troops were using fake Russian ID cards.

Andrei Gurulyov, a member of the lower house of the Russian parliament and a retired general, criticized the Russian military for failing to properly protect the border. "It is a pity that the troops protecting the border do not have their own intelligence assets," he said. "No one likes to see the truth in the reports. Everyone just wants to hear that everything is fine."

Elena, who evacuated to the temporary accommodation center for Kursk residents in the Moscow region, said: "Until the last moment we didn't know how to get out. The information was unclear. Sometimes they said there would be cars, sometimes not. In addition, the highway to Kursk was closed. In recent days, the village has become a restricted area. Everything is empty and the shops are closed. "Elena said, "People who drive away will drive very fast because there will be drones hunting cars on the highway."

Russian Federation Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskakova said children evacuated from the Kursk region may go to schools near Moscow in September.

Red Star News reporter Fan Xu Intern Ye Ying Comprehensive CCTV (Reporter Zheng Hao Ning)

Editor Yang Ran Responsible Editor Deng Qiguang