President Zelensky confirms Ukrainian troops fighting inside Russia

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President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed for the first time that the Ukrainian military is conducting a cross-border offensive inside Russia's western Kursk region

Late Saturday night, Zelensky said Ukraine was pushing the war onto "the aggressor's territory"

Russia's foreign ministry says its army will deliver a "tough response" to the incursion

On Tuesday, Kyiv launched the surprise attack and has advanced more than 10km (six miles) inside Russia

Russia says 76,000 people have been evacuated from border areas in the Kursk region

This is the deepest raid into the country since Moscow began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022

Kyiv and several other regions came under a Russian drone and missile attack overnight, killing two, local officials said


Live Reporting

Edited by Johanna Chisholm

Moscow vows to respond as Ukraine pushes inside Russia



published at 16:28

A map depicting the border between Ukraine and Russia. Kharkiv, Sudzha and Kursk are marked

Today we've been focussing on developments in the Ukraine war, following President Zelensky's confirmation that Kyiv is carrying out an offensive inside Russia, which was launched on Tuesday.


We're soon going to be closing our coverage for the day, but here's the key things you need to know for the day:


President Zelensky confirmed in his nightly video address on Saturday that Kyiv was carrying out a cross-border offensive into Russia

At the time of his address, the Ukrainian advances into western Kursk region had penetrated more than 10km (six miles) past the border - making it the furthest since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022

On Sunday, Russia appeared to acknowledge that Ukrainian forces had advanced still further. Its defence ministry said it engaged Ukrainian troops near towns 25km and 30km from the border

Moscow has vowed a "tough" response to the incursion and a Ukrainian missile strike on a residential building in Kursk that it said injured at least 11, the foreign ministry said

Earlier, the Russian Defence Ministry said its forces had shot down 35 drones and four rockets overnight that it said was fired by "the Kyiv regime"

Ukraine in turn reported to have shot down 53 of 57 attack drones last night

They released more details of two deaths in Kyiv overnight - a father and his four-year-old son were killed when a rocket fragment fell on residential houses. Three more were injured according to emergency services

BBC Verify has been working to confirm details of footage that is coming through from Russia. You can watch a video showing destroyed Russian convoy here and Ukrainian soldiers removing a Russian flag from a building here

Thank you for joining our live coverage. This page was written by Cachella Smith and Jaroslav Lukiv and was edited by

 Johanna Chisholm.

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