he US has asked for details about Ukraine’s objectives in the Russian region of Kursk. Russia has engaged reserves as it seeks to thwart the Ukrainian operation. DW has the latest.
A top Russian official says fighting is ongoing for a third day after Ukrainian troops smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region.
About 1,000 Ukrainian troops poured across the Russian border in the early hours of August 6 with tanks and armored vehicles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned Ukraine’s incursion as a “large-scale provocation.”
Meanwhile, the White House says it is contacting Ukraine to learn the “objectives” of the operation.
Medvedev says Russia must push deeper into Ukraine
Russian forces must press further into Ukraine than the four regions it considers its own, former president Dmitry Medvedev says, in light of Ukraine’s incursion into Russian territory.
Medvedev said Moscow’s forces should push on into Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Mykolayiv, Kyiv and farther.
The former prime minister said that Russian troops should only stop advancing only when it is it beneficial to do so.
Ukraine asks Mexico to arrest Putin if he attends inauguration
The Ukrainian embassy has asked the Mexican government to arrest Russian leader Vladimir Putin if he attends the inauguration of president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum.
The Kyiv diplomatic mission, which called Putin a “war criminal,” also thanked Mexico for inviting Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the ceremony on October 1.
“We are confident that the Mexican government would comply in any case with the international arrest warrant by handing over the aforementioned [Putin] to the United Nations judicial body in The Hague,” the Ukrainian embassy said in a statement.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Putin last year on allegations of war crimes over the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. That followed Moscow’s full-scale invasion in early 2022.
Juan Ramon de la Fuente, who is touted to be Sheinbaum’s foreign minister, said it was “standard protocol” to invite to the inauguration the leaders of every country with which Mexico shares diplomatic relations.
Sheinbaum, who is set to be Mexico’s first female president, clinched a historic victory in the country’s June 2 general election.
