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[Global Times Report] According to reports from TASS and other Russian media on the 23rd, Russian Ambassador to the United States Antonov told reporters on the evening of the 22nd that Russian President Putin has decided on how to respond to the Ukrainian army's attack on Kursk Oblast, and Ukraine will be severely punished.

Antonov, data map, source: foreign media

"To be honest, the president (Putin) has made a decision. I am convinced that everyone (relevant) will be severely punished for what happened in Kursk Oblast," TASS quoted Antonov as saying.

Recently, the situation in Russia's Kursk Oblast has attracted attention. According to RIA Novosti and other media reports, the Ukrainian army raided Kursk Oblast on the 6th, and then the two sides clashed in the state. Putin held a meeting on the situation on Russia's southern border on the 12th and said that Russia will resolutely respond to Ukraine's series of provocations in the border area. He also said that Russia will evaluate the situation in the Russian-Ukrainian border area, and that driving Ukraine out of Russian territory and effectively defending the border area is the current priority.

According to Xinhua News Agency, Putin chaired a meeting on the situation in the Russian border area on the 22nd and said that the Ukrainian army attempted to attack the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant from the night of the 21st to the early morning of the 22nd. The International Atomic Energy Agency has learned about this and promised to send experts to assess the situation. Russia hopes that the agency's experts can go. Kursk Oblast Acting Governor Smirnov said on the 22nd that the state has evacuated more than 133,000 people, and there are still about 20,000 people stranded in the danger zone.