The mayor of Kurchatov, a Russian town near the border with Ukraine, said Ukrainian forces launched a stunning incursion into the country and advanced toward a nuclear power plant on Friday, Russia’s TASS news agency reported. Washington Post.
The news comes as civilians continue to evacuate the Kursk region amid fears that the conflict could continue to creep into Russian territory. Military leaders have also rushed reinforcements from across the country to the Kursk region, where the fighting has been concentrated.
Ukrainian forces on Monday launched an offensive in Kursk, a region on Ukraine’s northeastern border with Russia, capturing more than 20 Russian villages and parts of the city of Sudzha, Washington Post Azerbaijan News Agency reported Vesti.az reported on Friday: In the evening, Kurchatov Mayor Igor Korbunkov said in a statement on Telegram that “fighting is taking place dozens of kilometers” from the nuclear plant.
“The situation is tense, a state of emergency is in effect. However, all services and institutions, including the city administration, are functioning normally. I personally am in the city, at my workplace, monitoring the situation,” Korbunkov added.
The International Atomic Energy Agency wrote in Statement by the Russian news agency TASSThe International Atomic Energy Agency’s director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, said on Friday that the agency “is following reports on recent developments and has open channels of communication with both sides in the conflict. At this stage there is no cause for concern regarding nuclear safety and security.”
The agency added that “the agency’s director general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, stressed that all nuclear power plants, regardless of their location, should not be the target of armed attack.”
the Institute for the Study of War Ukrainian forces reportedly pushed 35 kilometers (22 miles) into Russian territory on Thursday. Russian authorities declared a federal state of emergency in Kursk on Friday evening as Ukrainian forces continued their advance, destroying a Russian reinforcement convoy on the E38 highway, the Russian news agency reported. Guardian.
Unconfirmed reports later Friday from the Ukrainian news agency Oboz.wa Reports claimed that a Ukrainian drone hit a substation of the station, causing a power outage in Kurchatov.
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh He told reporters during a press conference on Thursday He added that Ukraine’s advance into Russian territory “was part of American policy,” referring to Ukraine’s use of US-supplied weapons on Russian territory.
As the advance continued, Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov reportedly missed an emergency session of the Russian Security Council called by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin Friday, according to Newsweek.