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On August 14, local time, Apti Araudinov, deputy director of the Military and Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, said:About 12,000 soldiers from Ukraine and other countries recently entered Russia's Kursk Oblast.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the same day that Ukrainian troops were "making good progress" in the Kursk region.

On August 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense released a video showing that the Russian army attacked the Ukrainian armored vehicles in Kursk Oblast. CCTV News Client Report Picture

Araudinov told Russia-1 that an estimated 12,000 soldiers have entered the Kursk region, including many from other countries.“So you can hear Polish, English and French everywhere”, “most of them had been eliminated.”

He said the Ukrainian military's goal was to capture strategic facilities in parts of Russia's Kursk Oblast and neighboring Belgorod Oblast.The leaders of NATO hope that the Ukrainian army can occupy important Russian territories and a large number of strategic facilities so as to put forward conditions to Russia.

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According to the French weekly "Point de l'Opinion" on the 14th,Ukrainian armed forces are using French military equipment to attack areas along the Russian border.The report said that a video posted on social media showed that the Ukrainian army removed a damaged French-made VAB armored vehicle from Kursk Oblast for repair. Since the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis in February 2022, Ukraine has received about 300 VAB armored vehicles from France.

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The Russian Ministry of Defense issued a notice earlier on the 14th saying that as of now,The Ukrainian army has lost 2,300 people in the Kursk direction.As well as 37 tanks, 32 armored personnel carriers, 15 field artillery pieces, 4 air defense missile systems and other equipment.

Zelensky posted on social media on the 14th:Ukrainian military operations in "several areas" of Russia's Kursk Oblast continued to advance "one to two kilometers."

According to Reuters and AFP, Russia said 200,000 people had been evacuated from the border area. Ukraine said it would "open a humanitarian corridor" for civilians in the areas controlled by the Ukrainian army in Kursk Oblast to facilitate their evacuation.

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According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, on August 6, the Ukrainian army crossed the border and attacked Kursk Oblast. The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on the 13th thatUkraine has "no interest" in occupying Kursk Oblast, and its offensive operations are aimed at protecting its own people.According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Russia has launched attacks on Ukraine from Kursk Oblast in recent months using artillery, missiles, drones and other weapons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to the Ukrainian attack by saying:Ukraine has once again carried out "large-scale provocations" and "indiscriminately fired" at civilian targets, and the "enemy" will receive an appropriate response in the Russian border area.

Reuters quoted a Russian lawmaker as saying that Ukraine's Western supporters must have known about the attack. "Of course they were involved."