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"Ukrainians have long become used to grim news reports from their besieged
lands. But that’s suddenly changed. Following its remarkably successful
incursion of Russia’s Kursk region, cheerful Ukrainian journalists are now
covering the war from captured Russian territory.
Ukraine’s surprise counterpunch, taking the fight into Russia for the first
time, shows no signs yet of having reached a high-water mark. Unlike previous
pinprick raids by the anti-Putin Freedom of Russia Legion militia group,
Ukraine’s armed forces are using some of their most seasoned units.
Having punched through a thinly defended portion of its border near the Russian
city of Kursk – itself famous as a scene of one of the Soviet Union’s greatest
victories against Germany in the second world war – Ukraine’s forces reportedly
have captured up to 70 settlements.
In the process they’ve taken control of a piece of land encompassing some 1,000
square kilometres, up to 30 kilometres deep inside Russia. "
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
