Putin: Kursk advance will not stop Russian offensive
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Ukraine’s incursion into the border region of Kursk will not stop his offensive in eastern Ukraine.
“Their calculation was to stop our offensive actions in key parts of the Donbas,” Putin told school children during a visit to Siberia, adding: “We have to, of course, deal with these bandits who entered the Russian Federation.”
Ukrainian forces down 22 Russian drones as children start school
Russia unleashed a new wave of missile strikes on Kyiv and the city of Sumy in the northeast overnight.
The Ukrainian military said it had shot down some 22 drones over the capital and the surrounding area late Sunday and early Monday, hours before the school year was set to start.
“Overnight, Russia fired a total of 35 missiles, including ballistic ones, and 23 drones at Ukraine,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said. The airforce said it had down nine ballistic missiles.
Ukraine’s Kharkiv suffers fresh Russian aerial assault
