The Ukrainian army was advanced to 30 kilometers in Russia. This is the deepest and major counterattack operation since Moscow's full invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the Russian army was in the Ukrainian army near the village of Tolpino and Obshchy Kolodez.sky.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova criticized Kiev to "intimidate Russia's civilians".
Ukrainian President Zelezki directly acknowledged the attack in his speech for the first time, saying that Russia launched a cross -border attack from Koursk this summer this summer.
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Zelei told the people in the night of Kiev's night last night: "Artillery fire, mortar, drone. We also saw missile attacks, and each time this attack should get the same back."
Agence France -Presse quoted a senior Ukrainian official that thousands of soldiers participated in the operation and far surpassed the small -scale invasion of the initial report of the Russian border forces.
Despite the intermittently launching cross -border invasion in Ukraine's destructive tissue, the Koursk offensive marks that Kiev's conventional troops can coordinate the largest attack on Russian territory.
The official said: "We are launching an offensive. The goal is to eliminate the position of the enemy, cause the biggest loss, and destroy the stability of Russia's situation because they cannot protect our boundaries."
The Russian Ministry of Defense said on Sunday that its troops "frustrated the attempt to deeply penetrate the Russian territory with armored vehicles with armored vehicles."
But Russia acknowledged that the Ukrainian army has now penetrated the border area of the Koursk, and Tolpino and Obshchy Kolodez, about 25 kilometers and 30 kilometers from the Russian border and 30 kilometers.) Affairs with the Ukrainian army near the village.
The film circulating and verified on the Internet also shows that Russia attacked near the village of Levshinka, about 25 kilometers from the border.
The Ukrainian army claimed that it had seized multiple residents in the Kurusk area.In the Guvo countryside about 3 kilometers in Russia, some soldiers photographed their pictures of removing the Russian flag from an administrative building.
The Ukrainian troops have also appeared in Sudzha, a small town of about 5,000 residents in Sudzha, who seized the administrative building in Sverdlikovo and Poroz.fighting.
Another picture taken by the Ukraine is a major natural gas facility outside the town of Sujia. After the war broke out, the facility continued to transport natural gas to the EU via Ukraine by Russia.
In the Sumy area bordering the Kurusk area, Ukrainian armored tanks and tanks that have been witnessed to Russia are witnessed.The armored team has a white triangle badge, which seems to be to distinguish the weapons used in Ukraine.
At the same time, aerial photos show that the Ukraine tank is fighting in Russia.
BBC Verify analysis photos also show that Russia is establishing a new defense line near the Koursk nuclear power plant.The Ukrainian troops fought in Obshchy Kolodez were less than 50 kilometers away from the facility.
Compared with the satellite images taken in the same place yesterday and the previous days, there are several new trenches nearby nearby, and the nearest distance is about 8 kilometers away from nuclear power plants.Russia said 76,000 people have evacuated in the border area of the Kurusk area, and the local government announced that the region has entered an emergency.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko, a member of Ukraine Parliament, praised the operation, saying that "more than a hundred peaceful summits make us closer to peace."
He said to BBC: "When Russia needs to fight back on their territory, when the Russian people escape, when people care, this is the only way to stop them to stop this war."
Before the Koursk offensive, Russia has made progress in the east for several weeks, and has captured several villages.
Some analysts believe that the Koursk attack is one of the measures to force the Russian army to withdraw from East Ukraine and alleviate the pressure of Ukraine's defense.
But AFP quoted Ukrainian officials that Russia has rarely lax actions in the east so far.
Earlier this week, Russian President Putin said that the offensive was "major provocations."
At the same time, the emergency service department in the Kiev area said that a man and his four -year -old son were killed in a missile attack near the capital last night.
Air Force officials said that Russia launched 57 drones in the night air strike, and the air defense system destroyed 53 of them.They said that the Russian army also launched four North Korean missiles in the attack.
Russia was forced to turn to this isolated Asian country to supplement the arms, and the United States accused Pyongyang transport a large number of military equipment to Russia.
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In other places, Russian officials at the occupied Russian officials at Zaporizhzhia Oblast said a fire broke out on Sunday in the region's nuclear power plant.
Governor of the Kremlin Governor of Zapoli, Yevgeny Balitsky, said the fire occurred after the Ukrainian army was shelled.He pointed out that there was no radiation abnormalities around the nuclear power plant.
Russian official Tas News reported that the main fire of the factory was extinguished in the early morning of Monday.
International atomic agencies under the United Nations issued a statement on social media X stating that on -site inspectors on the north of the inspectors who witnessed facilities appeared in the north of the facilities, but emphasized that "no report showed a nuclear security."
Ukrainian President Zelei posted in social media, saying that the Russian army arson in the factory area.
The nuclear power plantIt has been controlled by the Russian army and officials since 2022.The nuclear power plant has not been generated for more than two years, and all six reactors have been in a cold stop since April.