ALBAWABA - As the Ukrainian Military expands deeper into the Russian region of Kursk, neighboring Belgorod has prompted evacuations across the city amid fears of a Ukrainian offensive expanding.
Ukrainian soldiers broke across the Russian border, sweeping the Western areas of the Kursk region, in a surprise offensive that might be intended to gain leverage in potential cease-fire talks after the US election.
Taken off guard, Russia had stabilized the front in the Kursk area by Sunday. At the same time, Ukraine had situated its troops in the Russian territory of Kursk where fighting continued on Monday, according to Russian war bloggers.
On August 10, the Russian state media agency TASS claimed that more than 76,000 people of the Kursk Region had been evacuated due to the continued Ukrainian offensive.
At the same time, some have gone to social media to complain about the authorities' poor attempts to assist citizens in evacuating, as well as a lack of supplies for those who have already done so.
In the neighboring Belgorod area to the south, the regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, stated that evacuations had begun from the Krasnaya Yaruga District due to "enemy activity on the border" that posed a "threat".
"I am sure that our servicemen will do everything to cope with the threat that has arisen. We are starting to move people who live in the Krasnaya Yaruga district to safer places," Gladkov stated.
Gladkov said on August 10 that the town of Poroz, situated in an adjacent region, was blocked due to a "counter-terrorism operation regime."
While the Ukrainian government and military leadership have yet to comment on the operation in Kursk, the media is obliged to rely on limited material supplied by Russian Telegram channels and footage of Ukrainian soldiers.
In reaction to Ukraine's incursion, Russian authorities launched a so-called "counter-terrorism operation" on August 9 in the cities of Kursk, Bryansk, and Belgorod along the Ukrainian border.
