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Putin says no peace talks with Ukraine as 180,000 citizens evacuated due to invasion

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Putin says no peace talks with Ukraine as 180,000 citizens evacuated due to invasion

Ukraine’s high-risk and brazen cross-border ground incursion into Russia’s Kursk region has been going on for nearly a week, with Russian forces still battling the invaders and kyiv confirming in a new statement that the operation was launched by Russian forces. “Offensive operation” continues.

Russian emergency authorities have evacuated a staggering number of 180,000 citizens Ukrainian troops have been deployed to border regions where fighting has escalated. An official briefing on the situation given to President Putin on Monday revealed that the shock offensive in Ukraine is bigger, broader and more devastating than previously thought.

“The Ukrainian army has taken control of 28 cities and villages of the Kursk border region of Russiainciting a sixth of its population to flee “The incursion was reported by the acting regional governor to President Vladimir Putin,” he said. Bloomberg wrote official statements. But the fact remains that On the front lines inside eastern Ukraine, Russian forces continue to advancewith RIA declarant “Russia takes control of Lyscychne settlement in Ukraine.”

Ukraine now claims that its forces occupy 1,000 square kilometers from Russian territory, the Defense Ministry said in a statement on Monday. According to other reports BloombergRussian officials have admitted that a significant part of Russian territory is in a state of emergency:

More than 120,000 people have left their homes and about 60,000 others are awaiting evacuation, Alexei Smirnov told Putin and top Russian security officials in a televised meeting on Monday. Ukrainian forces have penetrated at least 12 kilometers into Russia and control a border zone at least 40 kilometers wide, although it is unclear where their troops are, he said.

President Putin made his first detailed public statements since the incursion began. He notably stressed in his speech on Monday that now There will be no peace negotiations or settlement with kyiv.

“Now it is clear why the Kiev regime rejected our proposals for a return to the peaceful settlement plan,” Putin said. “The enemy, with the help of its Western masters, does what they want, and the West wages war on us using the Ukrainians…” seeks to improve its negotiating position in the future” . “

“But what kind of negotiations can we talk about with people who indiscriminately attack civilians, civilian infrastructure or try to destroy civilian infrastructure? create threats to nuclear facilities“, the Russian leader added. “What can we talk about with them?”

That last part was referring to the somewhat mysterious drama that occurred Sunday at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, where a fire appeared to break out, which was then used by President Zelensky to raise the threat of an imminent nuclear disaster. But the UN’s IAEA has since said that the incident, which may simply have involved tires burning at the complex, was had no impact on nuclear safety.

As for the latest developments regarding Russia’s efforts to repel the invasion from the South, the Kremlin released the following figures:

  • Hospitals admitted 69 people injured in Ukrainian shelling in Kursk region,
  • 17 are in serious condition.
  • Ukraine lost up to 1,350 soldiers,
  • Ukraine has lost 29 tanks and 23 armoured personnel carriers since the start of the war.

And below, some of the latest developments that have occurred in the last few hours via Al Jazeera:

  • New evacuation orders have been issued in Russia’s Belgorod and Kursk regions amid Ukraine’s cross-border incursion.
  • The State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) claims that Russia is trying to falsely accuse kyiv’s military of war crimes.
  • Kursk Governor Alexei Smirnov said the total number of civilian deaths following the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region has reached 12.
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine was trying to undermine Russia’s stability with its incursion into the south of the country, but would not succeed.
  • Russia claims to have repelled seven Ukrainian attacks in Kursk launched by the Ukrainian 80th and 82nd Airborne Assault Brigades over the past 24 hours.
  • A Ukrainian deputy energy minister accused of accepting a bribe worth half a million dollars has been detained along with three alleged accomplices, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said.

As speculation continues over what Zelensky ultimately hopes to achieve from the Kursk operation, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has held phone calls with his Western counterparts, urging NATO countries to lift their previous bans on the use of Western weapons to attack Russia.

The internationalization of this proxy war is increasing…

Umerov said on X that he had urged French leaders to lift the ban “hitting military targets” on “enemy territory”.

Russian leaders are watching with growing dismay surprising scenes like this…

In May, the French presidency stipulated that Western weapons could only be used at the locations “from where the missiles are fired” and “not at other civilian or military targets.” But it is now clear that Ukraine hopes to strike deeper into Russia with long-range missiles supplied by NATO.

This would mark an extremely dangerous turning point in the war, which the Kremlin could view as an “existential threat” to the nation, triggering the deployment of strategic forces. Western-supplied armored vehicles have already been spotted among the invading forces in Ukraine.

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