Russia not allowing its citizens to evacuate from combat zone in Kursk Oblast – Ukrainian Armed Forces
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Russia is not providing an evacuation corridor for its
citizens who want to leave the combat zone in Kursk Oblast, Vadym Mysnyk,
spokesperson for the Siversk operational-tactical group of troops, said on the
national television.
“They [the locals] say they want peace, that they are
apolitical, that they want everything to stop, or for them to be given a
corridor to leave the combat zone, but Russia is not allowing it,” he said.
The spokesperson emphasized that the aggressor state’s army
is targeting areas where there are no military personnel, using guided aerial
bombs and drones.
“They recently destroyed the ice arena in Sudzha with a KAB
bomb, and two days ago, they hit a boarding school—quite a modern building.
There are many such examples,” he said.
Mysnyk noted that the Defense Forces are trying to create
conditions for normal life in the territories they control, but residents of
Sudzha are forced to sleep in basements due to intense Russian shelling.
According to him, the humanitarian situation is difficult.
Ukrainian offensive in Kursk Oblast
On Aug. 12, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed for the first time the Defense Forces’ operation in Kursk Oblast. He emphasized that the goal of the operation, which began on Aug. 6, is to liberate Ukraine’s border territories from Russian troops that regularly shelled Sumy Oblast.
On Aug. 12, the authorities of Kursk Oblast acknowledged the loss of 28 settlements. Among the settlements under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is Sudzha, where the last functioning transfer point for Russian gas through Ukraine to Europe is located.
On Aug. 20, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi stated that Ukraine controls 1,263 square kilometers and 93 settlements in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
On Aug. 25, Zelenskyy reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to advance.
On Aug. 27, Syrskyi stated that Russia had transferred about 30,000 troops to the Kursk direction from Ukrainian territories. According to him, Ukraine now controls 100 settlements and 1,294 square kilometers of Kursk Oblast territory, and 594 Russian soldiers have been captured.
On Aug. 29, BILD reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine recently took control of the village of Chervonozhovtneve on the banks of the Seym River. Thus, even without taking Korenevo, they completely closed the eastern border of the “cauldron,” where about 3,000 Russian soldiers are trapped. From the south and west, it is blocked by the state border, and from the north, by the Seym River.
On Aug. 30, Syrskyi announced that Ukrainian forces advanced two kilometers in the Kursk direction within a day.
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