President , Volodymyr Zelenskyy , urged supporters to allow , Ukraine , to reach deeply into Russian country as his soldiers continue to hold floor gained in a wonder cross-border invasion last week and a missile strike killed two near , Kyiv.
In a bid to halt the country’s first overseas invasion since World War II, Russian troops said their troops fired on Russian soldiers in the northern Kursk region. Overnight, the government reported that it had shot down 35 robots and four weapons over Kursk and nearby areas.
Moscow , said before it was bringing in reinforcements to help quiet Ukraine’s wonder cross-border attack — the biggest assault within , Russia , since President , Vladimir Putin , ordered a presumably fast” special military operation” against , Ukraine , in 2022 that’s now well in its second year.
Authorities in , Kyiv , have been tight-lipped about their objectives, as they were during encirclement in 2022 and 2023. Without providing further information, Zelenskyy claimed in his monthly target on Saturday that Army Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi was informing him about “our activities pushed the conflict out into the perpetrator’s place.”
Zelenskyy thanked his troops for putting” the pressure on the aggressor” into action.
Russia , struck some provinces of , Ukraine , immediately with four North Korean nuclear weapons and 57 , Shahed , robots, Ukrainian Air Force Commander , Mykola Oleshchuk , said on Telegram. Blasts were heard from the world’s west to east.
The KN-23 rockets were fired from the Voronezh place of , Russia, Oleshchuk said, adding that , Ukraine , shot downward 53 robots.
The , U. S.  , and , South Korea , have accused , North Korea , of sending thousands of rounds of weapons and values of projectile missiles to , Russia , to aid in the war of , Ukraine, which , Moscow , and , Pyongyang , have denied despite data showing arms supplies taking place.
A father and his four-year-old son were killed and at least three others were seriously injured in the overnight attack in the Brovary district east of the capital, according to regional authorities.
Russian troops continue to press along the front line in Ukraine’s eastern , Donetsk , region and have also been storming positions in the northeastern region of Kharkiv, the General Staff in , Kyiv , said on Sunday.
Ukrainian officials have complained that the Kremlin’s army is being forced to advance further because of delays in the arrival of promised Western aid.
While Kremlin ground forces has made slow gains in recent months,  , Ukraine , has increasingly targeted military objects and energy infrastructure — often deep into , Russia , — with drones and missiles.
Russian military bloggers, who earlier reported Ukrainian advancing as deep as 37 kilometers ( 23 miles ) into the Kursk region, said Kyiv’s troops had made no additional breakthroughs overnight.
Due to concerns about potential supply disruptions, fighting in the town of Sudzha, which is a crucial transit point for the last pipeline carrying Russian gas to , Europe, contributed to the rise in European natural gas prices this year. Russia’s Gazprom PJSC reported flows across , Ukraine , within a normal range on Sunday.
The Kursk atomic power plant close to Kurchatov was operating normally, according to Tass on Saturday, according to Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom.  , International Atomic Energy Agency , chief , Rafael Grossi , and Rosatom Chief Executive Officer , Alexey Likhachev , discussed the situation in a phone call late Friday, the company said in a website statement.
Russia ‘s , Federal Security Service , announced a” counter-terrorism” regime in Kursk and the neighboring Belgorod and Bryansk border regions on Saturday, a move that allows for restrictions on movement and communications. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said that was a response to Ukraine’s “unprecedented” attempt to destabilize the situation.
In response to the fighting, more than 76, 000 people have been forced to leave the Kursk region’s border regions. On Friday, the government declared a federal emergency in the area.
Up to 20 000 people have been compelled to leave a 10-kilometer area of the Ukrainian northern Sumy region, which borders Kursk and other Russian regions, while officials are directing residents there.
Ukraine’s leading allies have endorsed the Kursk incursion. The Pentagon said the move is consistent with Washington’s policy on the use of , U. S. supplied weapons, while the , European Union , has said , Ukraine , has a legitimate right to defend itself, including with attacks on Russian territory.
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