Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, accused Ukrainian troops of crossing the border into the Kursk region, marking the possible first incursion of its kind by Ukraine in Russia since the start of the war. Independent military analysts appear to confirm Russia’s claim. The Epoch Times could not immediately verify Russia’s claims.
Ukrainian forces “attacked the positions of the units covering the State Border of the Russian Federation in the areas of the settlements of Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya in the Kursk region” near the Russian–Ukrainian border, north of Kharkiv in Ukraine, said the Russian ministry in a social media post on Tuesday. It said that 300 soldiers, 11 tanks, and 20 combat vehicles from the Ukrainian 22nd Mechanized Brigade were involved in the attack.
Ukrainian authorities have not publicly responded to Russia’s statements. Putin also alleged that Ukrainian forces were conducting the “indiscriminate shelling of civilian” targets in the Kursk region, while the Russian Ministry of Health said that 31 people were injured, including six children.
