President on the third meeting in a week… A “reasonable response” is meant to be non-negotiable
“Ukrainian troops enter 12km and control 28 towns… 120,000 people flee”
Russian President Vladimir Putin
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(Moscow = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi In-young = As Ukraine’s military invasion of the Russian mainland continued for a week, Russian President Vladimir Putin personally chaired another meeting on the 12th (local time).
According to TASS and Reuters, President Putin held a meeting on the situation in border areas including Kursk in Novo-Ogaryovo, a suburb of Moscow, and said, “The main task is to drive the enemy out of the land, suppress them, and ensure permanent border security.”
They also said that Ukraine invaded the mainland to gain the upper hand in future peace talks, to stop Russian military attacks on its territory, and to destroy Russian society. to put down.
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This is the third meeting he personally chaired regarding the invasion of the mainland, after the 7th and 9th.
President Putin read a handwritten memorandum that day and described the current situation in detail.
He said that Ukraine’s “provocations” had led to many casualties and “the enemy will definitely get a deserved response and all the goals ahead of us will be achieved without a doubt.”
Ukraine has been on the offensive across the border from Kursk, mainland Russia, since the 6th. Fighting continues for a week despite Russian retaliatory operations.
It is believed to be the largest attack in Ukraine targeting the Russian mainland since Russia launched a ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine in February 2022.
Putin will face a mainland battle
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Regarding the Ukrainian invasion of the mainland, President Putin assessed it as a provocation with the help of the West to gain an advantage in future negotiations.
At the same time, he said, “What kind of negotiations can we have with those who attack civilians and civilian infrastructure or threaten nuclear power facilities?”, meaning that peace talks have become difficult.
The day before, the Russian nuclear power company Rosatom said that a Ukrainian drone attack had caused a fire in one of the cooling towers at the Russian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said of the Kursk attack, “They have to feel what they did too,” but did not specify the objective of the operation.
At the meeting that day, in the presence of military and judicial centers of Russia and the leaders of border regions, it was also reported that Ukrainian forces had taken control of part of the mainland.
Acting Governor Alexei Smirnov of Kursk, where an emergency and anti-terrorist operation system was deployed, attended the meeting via video conference, and said that the Ukrainian army had to enter 12 km into the land and 40 and control 28 villages with a total of 2,000 people He said it was difficult.
Then, Bloomberg News reported, President Putin cut him off, saying, “This is a matter for the military to assess,” and asked for an explanation of the socioeconomic situation and support for residence
Acting Smirnov replied that more than 121,000 Kursk residents had been evacuated and that 59,000 more would have to leave. It was also said that the Ukrainian forces used chemical weapons.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Sirsky said at a staff meeting that day, “We currently control about 1,000 square kilometers of the territory of the Russian Federation.”
Residents of Kursk were evacuated
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At a meeting today, President Putin stressed that the situation was under control.
He said that Ukraine took these actions to stop the Russian military offensive and to regain the areas currently under Russian control, including Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson. , but the pace of Russian military advance into Ukraine increased 1.5 times.
He also confirmed that the Ukrainian army is losing soldiers and equipment quickly, and that the losses of the most combat-ready units in the Ukrainian army are particularly high. On the other hand, in Russia, the number of people who want to sign up and register in the army is increasing, he explained.
When the Governor of Bryansk Oblast, Aleksandr Bogomaz described the situation as very calm in the region, he ordered to prepare for additional attacks, saying that Ukraine was trying to further destabilize the border region Russia and society.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that additional troops and equipment were being deployed to defeat Ukrainian forces. He also confirmed that the Russian army took control of the town of Lisichne in Donetsk on this day and that they had liberated 19 towns in Donetsk last month alone.
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