Selensky announces:

Operation to shift the war to Russia

A few days after the start of the Ukrainian advance on Russian territory near Kursk, President Volodymyr Zelensky took a direct stance on the attack for the first time. 

Defense Minister Olexander Syrskyj had reported to him about "the advance of the war into the territory of the aggressor", explained Selenskyj in his evening video address.

Ukraine is thus proving "that it is really capable of ensuring justice and is guaranteed to build up exactly the pressure that is needed - pressure on the aggressor".

Neither Zelensky nor the military in Kiev provided any further details on the current status of the Ukrainian troops' advance into Russian territory.

In the past few days, Selensky had only made indirect allusions to the attack in the direction of Kursk.