Evacuations ordered for 28 villages near border after Russia reinforces region as it battles shock Ukrainian incursion
Firefighters hose down the flattened corner of a building after a Russia n missile strike on the Okhmadyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv on Thursday. Photograph: Brendan Hoffman/The New York TimesThe residents trundled toward the pick-up point, their overflowing carrier bags loaded on to carts, as Russia n forces intensified aerial guided bomb attacks.
Evacuee Serhiy Kozak said residents of the eight houses making up his village of Basivka had seen enough of war, launched when the Kremlin sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022. Ukrainian officials have remained largely silent about the incursion into Kursk region, but unofficial reports from both sides note that four days into the operation they are advancing.
The evacuations come as Russia moved extra tanks, artillery and rocket systems to its Kursk region and imposed anti-terrorism measures in border areas as it battles a shock incursion by Ukraine’s military. The head of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency urged both sides to show restraint in view of the proximity of the conflict to the station, 60 km from the border.
Early on Saturday, Russian news agencies said the National Anti-Terrorism Committee had imposed anti-terror measures in Kursk region and in nearby Bryansk and Belgorod regions. President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with Security Council permanent members on the situation in the Kursk region, in his residence outside Moscow on Friday. Photograph: Aleksey Babushkin/Getty Images
Reuters could not verify this video and the Ukrainian military’s General Staff made no comment. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has maintained a strict silence on the operation, though he dropped some clear hints on Thursday, without referring to Kursk.
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