Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday , that the Ukrainian invasion of Russia's Kursk region is a "large-scale provocation,", Reuters quoted him as saying.
"As you know, the regime in Kiev undertook another large-scale provocation. "He fired indiscriminately with various types of weapons, including rockets, at civilian buildings, residential buildings and ambulances," Putin claimed
Moscow clinics are ready to treat victims from the Kursk region. This was stated by the mayor of the capital Sergey Sobyanin in his Telegram channel.
Russian President Vladimir Putin tasked First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov to coordinate efforts to provide assistance to the residents of the Kursk Region.
"I would like to say that based on my conversation with the acting governor of the Kursk region (Alexei Smirnov), instructions were given to a number of civil departments to provide the necessary assistance to the residents of the region, and the government will take care of this immediately" , the president said, opening a meeting with cabinet members. He assigned First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov to coordinate this work at the initial stage.
Russian Z-channels report the capture of the Suja gas measuring station by the Ukrainian armed forces.
This is what the "Ribar" channel wrote in a telegram. (considered close to the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces) and the propaganda channel Readovka.
According to Russian military bloggers, units of the Ukrainian armed forces have established control over the settlements of Obukhovka, Pokrovskoe, Tolsti Lug and Lyubimovka. "In the southeast, the enemy captured the gas measuring station "Suja", writes the Telegram channel Ribar.
There is no independent confirmation of this information yet. The Russian Ministry of Defense, as well as Ukraine, did not comment on the alleged capture of the station.
The gas measuring station "Sujja" is an important point on the way of Russian gas supplies to Europe. Up to 42 million cubic meters of gas pass through Suja every day.
Despite the unconfirmed reports of the capture of the gas measuring station "Suja" on the border of Russia and Ukraine, by mid-day Kyiv time, the transit of gas to Eastern Europe through Ukrainian territory continued without interruption, reports Reuters, citing "Gazprom" and the gas transport operator of Ukraine. .
Gazprom said 39.4 million cubic meters of gas would pass through this route on Wednesday, down slightly from 42.4 million on Tuesday. The Ukrainian gas transport operator told the agency that at 13:00 Kyiv time (coinciding with Bulgarian time) "gas was transported to European customers as usual, without changes.
The branch line passing through Suja is the only operational gas pipeline from Russia to Central Europe.
The ministry sent reserves on Tuesday to help repel hundreds of Ukrainian fighters, backed by tanks, who had invaded Kursk region across the border. This is probably one of the biggest sabotage actions on the territory of Russia during the war, already for more than two years.
The situation is "controllable," said Alexei Smirnov, acting governor of the southwestern Russian region, in posts on the Telegram messaging app.
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to support the Kursk Region in every way. Smirnov announced this in a video message on his Telegram channel.
The head of one of the regions of the Kursk region called on residents to limit movement around the village due to the worsening situation in the border area.
"Dear residents of Korenevsky district! Please limit traffic around the village for your safety," wrote the head of the Koreniv district, Marina Degtyareva.
The Korenevsky region borders the Suzha region of the Kursk region - last night the regional center of Suzha, located 10 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border, came under fire from the Ukrainian armed forces.
Later, the Chief of the General Staff of Russia, Valery Gerasimov, made a statement, quoted by TASS, in which he said that the incursion of Ukrainian troops into the country had been stopped, but also that the Ukrainian forces had been driven across the border.
"The actions of border protection units together with border guards and reinforcement units, airstrikes, missile forces and artillery fire stopped the enemy's advance deep into the territory of the Russian Federation in the direction of Kursk,'' the general said.
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5 people were killed as a result of the attack on Suzhan district of Kursk region.
The enemy continued to develop its advance to the north along the Suja-Korenevo highway. Still no movement towards Suja. He managed to control several more settlements. The total progress in just over 24 hours was approximately 15 km, the Russian military Telegram channel "Two Majors" reported.
In the border regions, medical institutions replenish the stocks of donor blood. The governor personally explained where blood can be donated.
The region has issued several air raid alerts in the past 24 hours, Smirnov's posts show. There were no reports of fighting in new territories as of Wednesday morning.
Five people were killed, including two ambulance crews, and at least 20 people were injured, including six children, in the fighting that broke out on Tuesday, Russian officials said.