August 13, 2024, 9:50 PM
August 13, 2024, 9:50 PM
The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security, Josep Borrell, said on Tuesday (13.08.2024) that the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Russian region of Kursk is forcing the Russian invading forces to retreat.
“(Russian President Vladimir) Putin has failed to break Ukraine’s resistance against his unjustified invasion and is now forced to retreat within Russia’s territory,” he said on social media X.
In the message, Borrell indicated that he had spoken with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba about “the latest developments on the front and the Kursk counteroffensive.”
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has made it clear that the aim of the incursion into Russia’s Kursk Oblast bordering Russia is not to “take over the territory of the region” but to protect Ukrainian civilians.
A spokesman for the ministry said that since the beginning of summer alone, more than 2,000 attacks have been recorded against the Ukrainian border region of Sumi from the Kursk border region.
He also said that the offensive operation in Kursk complicates Russian military logistics and makes it difficult for Moscow to move additional units to the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, where it is exerting great pressure on the front line in the Pokrovsk area.
