At least 200,000 people have so far been moved from the border regions, according to Russian data
Apti Alaudinov, commander of Chechnya’s Akhmat special forces, told Russian state television that Russian forces had taken back control of the settlement of Martynovka in the Kursk region, Reuters reported.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office, said today that “in the border regions of Russia, including Kursk region, Ukrainians deal exclusively with security-related tasks.”
Ukraine is not interested in occupying these territories. But it is interested in the actual destruction of many Russian military facilities, pushing the remnants of Russian troops beyond the lines that allow for artillery and ballistic missile strikes on Ukrainian territory, forming a security belt around Ukraine’s borders, and destroying military logistics and infrastructure (including storage bases, training centers, and places where equipment is concentrated).
