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According to the Associated Press report on the 14th, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on August 13 local time that the Russian army continued to repel the Ukrainian armed forces' attempt to invade Russia's Kursk Oblast. A spokesman for the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Ukraine has no intention of "taking over" Russian territory.

The Russian Ministry of Defense issued a notice on the 13th saying that the Russian armed forces continued to repel the Ukrainian army's attempt to launch an attack deep into Russian territory. In the past 24 hours, the "Northern" Army Group and the reserve troops, army aviation, drones and artillery units that arrived one after another took active actions to prevent the Ukrainian armored mobile forces from penetrating into Russian territory.

A Russian drone attacked a Ukrainian armored vehicle in the Kursk region. Video screenshot. Source: Visual China

On the same day, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi said that the Ukrainian military's cross-border incursion into Russian territory was aimed at protecting Ukrainian targets from long-range attacks from the Kursk Oblast.

According to the Ukrainian Pravda, Tishchi stressed at a press conference on the 13th that Ukraine has no intention of "taking over" the territory of Kursk Oblast. The goal of this operation is to prevent Russia from sending additional troops to the Donetsk region and complicate the logistics of the Russian army. "Ukraine is not interested in taking over the territory of Kursk Oblast. We want to protect the lives of our people...protect Ukrainian territory from Russian attacks," he said.

Tishchi also said that since the beginning of summer this year, the Russian army has launched more than 2,000 attacks from Kursk Oblast to the Sumy region of Ukraine, using 255 guided missiles.Aerial bomb"Therefore, it is necessary to mobilize the Ukrainian armed forces to prevent the Russian army from using these border areas to attack Ukraine." He also said that Ukraine is achieving "relevant goals" in Kursk Oblast and will continue to do so.

According to the Associated Press, in a video posted on social media by Ukrainian President Zelensky on the 13th, Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Sersky said that the Ukrainian army has now controlled 74 settlements in Kursk Oblast. He also said that the Ukrainian army is continuing to advance and has controlled more than 40 square kilometers of Russian territory in the past 24 hours. According to the Ukrainian military, since launching cross-border attacks on August 6, the Ukrainian army has controlled about 1,000 square kilometers of Russian territory.

The Associated Press quoted the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the Institute for the Study of War, as saying that geolocation of live video footage showed that Ukrainian troops had advanced up to 24 kilometers from the border. The report said that the Russian Ministry of Defense seemed to confirm this judgment. The department said on the 13th that the Russian army repelled the offensive launched by the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade of Ukraine towards the Martynovka settlement, which is about this far from the Ukrainian border.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, since the cross-border attack began on August 6, the Ukrainian army has lost 2,030 soldiers, 35 tanks, 31 armored personnel carriers, 18Infantry fighting vehicle, 179 armored vehicles, 78 motor vehicles, 4 setsAnti-aircraft missilessystem, 2 multiple rocket launch systems and 14 field artillery pieces.