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In this photo released by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry press service, people evacuated from a fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces in Kursk region arrive to a temporary residence centre in Moscow region, Russia, August 13, 2024
RUSSIAN forces have checked an effort by Ukrainian troops to expand a week-long cross-border incursion, the Defence Ministry said today, as Kiev said that it has no intention of occupying Russian territory.
According to a Russian Defence Ministry statement, army units, fresh reserves, military aircraft, drone teams and artillery forces have stopped Ukrainian armoured mobile groups from moving deeper into Russia, near the Kursk settlements of Obshchy Kolodez, Snagost, Kauchuk and Alexeyevsky.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi said the operation was aimed at protecting Ukrainian land from long-range strikes launched from Kursk.
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
