Volodymyr Zelenskiy has acknowledged for the first time that Ukrainian forces are fighting in Russia’s Kursk region and said the operation was part of Kyiv’s drive to restore justice after Russia’s 2022 invasion.
Ukraine’s president had previously remained silent about the incursion. In his address, he said he had discussed the operation with the top Ukrainian commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, ‘and our actions and pushing the war into the aggressor’s territory’.
Thanking the soldiers involved, he added: ‘Ukraine is proving that it can really bring justice and guarantees exactly the kind of pressure that is needed – pressure on the aggressor’