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This photograph shows a recruiting placard of Ukraine's Military Forces during a partial electricity blackout in the center of Kyiv on June 22, 2024, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. Sergei Supinsky, AFP/File

This photograph shows a recruiting placard of Ukraine's Military Forces during a partial electricity blackout in the center of Kyiv on June 22, 2024, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. - Ukraine faced severe energy shortages that saw parts of the capital Kyiv and several regions plunge into darkness due to Russian strikes on energy infrastructure. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)

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RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR

Agence France-Presse

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1723038721814AFP__20240623__34Y98CV__v3__Preview__TopshotUkraineRussiaConflictWarEnergyBlackout.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="This photograph shows a recruiting placard of Ukraine&#x27;s Military Forces during a partial electricity blackout in the center of Kyiv on June 22, 2024, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. Sergei Supinsky, AFP/File"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">This photograph shows a recruiting placard of Ukraine&#x27;s Military Forces during a partial electricity blackout in the center of Kyiv on June 22, 2024, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. <em>Sergei Supinsky, AFP/File</em></span></span></span></div><p>MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia was battling a major cross-border incursion from Ukraine for a second day on Wednesday, with authorities evacuating several thousand civilians due to fighting, officials said.</p><p>The incursion began on Tuesday morning, with Russia&#x27;s defense ministry announcing it had deployed air and artillery firepower to repel Ukrainian troops breaking into the western Kursk region.</p><p>President Vladimir Putin accused Kyiv of attacking civilian buildings and said he was meeting security service chiefs to discuss a response.</p><p>&quot;The Kyiv regime has undertaken another large-scale provocation,&quot; he said in a televised meeting with government officials on Wednesday.</p><p>&quot;It is firing indiscriminately from various types of weapons, including rockets, at civilian buildings, residential houses and ambulances,&quot; he added.</p><p>At least five civilians have been killed and 24 wounded since the incursion began, 13 of whom have been hospitalized, according to Russian officials.</p><p>The Russian defense ministry said hostilities were ongoing in a statement published 12:30 local time (0930 GMT), but stressed &quot;the enemy&#x27;s movement further into Russian territory had been prevented&quot;.</p><p>Authorities have evacuated several thousand people from the region and canceled all mass gatherings, Kursk regional governor Alexei Smirnov said.</p><p>&quot;Over the course of the last day, with our help, several thousand people left the shelling zone by personal transport,&quot; Smirnov said in a video message on Telegram.</p><p>But he added: &quot;The situation in the region is under control&quot;.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/5/putin-says-russia-is-not-in-a-position-to-declare-a-ceasefire-in-ukraine-814">READ: Putin says Russia is not in a position to declare a ceasefire in Ukraine</a></div><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/4/7-injured-in-russian-strike-on-kharkiv-residential-area-1504">READ: 7 injured in Russian strike on Kharkiv residential area</a></div><div><strong>- Serious attack -</strong></div><p>Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the incursion, the most serious in months.</p><p>However, a security source in Ukraine told AFP that Kyiv had struck a Russian helicopter using a drone on Tuesday over the Kursk region.</p><p>Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak also alluded to the attacks, on social media, without specifically mentioning them. Moscow had used its &quot;border regions with impunity for massive air and artillery attacks&quot;, he said.</p><p>Russia&#x27;s defense ministry said there had been losses on the Ukrainian side of 260 soldiers and 50 armored vehicles, including seven tanks and eight armored personnel carriers.</p><p>The claim could not be independently verified.</p><p>Kursk sits just across from Ukraine&#x27;s northeastern Sumy region and has been subjected to regular Ukrainian shelling attacks since the conflict began in February 2022.</p><p>Rybar, a Russian Telegram channel with military links, said Ukrainian forces had made small inroads across the border and occupied several small settlements.</p><p>It said Kyiv&#x27;s troops had reached the outskirts of Sudzha, a town of about 5,000 people some eight kilometers (five miles) from the border, but that Russian forces had pushed them back.</p><div><strong>- Past incursions -</strong></div><p>Fighters from Ukraine have made several brief incursions into Russia before, some by units of Russians fighting in support of Kyiv -- the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion.</p><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin in May launched a major new offensive into northeastern Ukraine. He said it was to create a security buffer to protect Russian border regions from shelling and aerial attacks.</p><p>That offensive was focused on Ukraine&#x27;s Kharkiv region, to the southeast of the Sumy region, from where Tuesday&#x27;s cross-border raid was mounted.</p><p>However the attacks have continued, with Russia&#x27;s Belgorod region declaring more than a dozen villages near the border no-go zones due to bombardment in July.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>Russia was battling a major cross-border incursion from Ukraine for a second day on Wednesday, with authorities evacuating several thousand civilians due to fighting, officials said.</p>

Russia was battling a major cross-border incursion from Ukraine for a second day on Wednesday, with authorities evacuating several thousand civilians due to fighting, officials said.

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Thousands flee as Russia battles major border attack from Ukraine

Agence France-Presse

Published Aug 07, 2024 11:30 PM PHT

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