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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the country’s northeastern Sumy region on Thursday, his first trip near the Russian border since Kiev’s military secretly invaded the Kursk region in early August.
Zelensky met with Admiral Silsky and later announced that Ukrainian troops had taken control of another Russian settlement in Kursk and captured more Russian prisoners, who he hoped to exchange for Ukrainians held captive by Moscow.
He called Russian captives Ukraine’s “exchange fund.”
But Kiev’s advance on Kursk is the first occupation of Russian territory since World War II, while Ukraine continues to lose ground in the eastern Donetsk region.
Russia’s Defense Ministry announced on Thursday that its troops had taken control of the village of Myzhov.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine of attempting to attack the Kursk nuclear power plant. But the Kremlin leader offered no evidence for his claim or further details about the alleged attack.
The offensive against Russia was Ukraine’s first in two and a half years of war. Ukraine has frequently targeted Russian military facilities used in drone and missile attacks against Ukraine.
A Ukrainian drone attacked a military facility, starting a fire, officials in Russia’s southern Volgograd region said on Thursday.
Ukraine claimed responsibility for the attack. /Voice of America
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