President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, speaking amid the ongoing battle in Russia's Kursk region, stated that Russia has brought war to Ukraine and must now experience the consequences of its actions.
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"I am grateful to every warrior, soldier, and commander who ensures the protection of our Ukrainian positions and the successful execution of defensive tasks.
Ukrainians know how to achieve their goals. Achieving goals in war was not our choice. Russia has brought war to our land, and it must feel the consequences of its actions.
We strive to achieve our goals as soon as possible in peacetime, under the conditions of a just peace - and it will happen," Zelensky said.
The offensive by the Ukrainian armed forces in the Kursk region, which began on August 6, continues for the third day. Reports indicate that on August 7, Ukrainian forces occupied the Sudzha checkpoint on the border between the Sumy [Ukraine] and Kursk regions, capturing several dozen Russian border guards. Additionally, there were reports that the Sudzha gas measuring station, located a few hundred meters from the checkpoint—a part of the main gas pipeline infrastructure in Russia, through which gas is supplied to Europe via Ukraine is now under Ukrainian control. According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), on August 7, Ukrainian armored vehicles penetrated about 10 kilometers beyond the border. A state of emergency has been declared in Kursk Oblast.
Mykhailo Podoliak, a representative of the Ukrainian government, was the first to comment on the ongoing conflict. "Russia has always believed that it is not subject to prohibitive legal norms, and therefore it can attack the territories of neighboring countries with impunity while hypocritically claiming that its own territories are inviolable. But war has its own rules, in which the aggressor always reaps what they sow," Podoliak said yesterday, August 8.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation claims that Russian troops are "suppressing the attempts of the Ukrainian armed forces to advance deeper into the Kursk region." The acting governor of Kursk, Andriy Belostotsky, stated that the Ukrainian army "hasn't advanced a single meter; on the contrary, it is retreating." These reports remain unconfirmed.
