Russian spy agency names states enabling Kiev’s Kursk incursion
The US, UK, and Poland trained the units that broke through the border earlier this month, the SVR has said | NATO countries helped Ukraine plan and carry out the ongoing incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has said. Moscow previously accused the US and other Western countries of enabling Kyiv to strike deep inside Russia and target civilians. [...] According to the SVR, the Ukrainian units that crossed the border earlier this month underwent training in Britain and Germany. [...] Kyiv’s largest incursion into internationally recognized Russian territory to date began on August 6, when Ukrainian troops attacked border posts and subsequently overran multiple villages, as well as Sudzha, a border city with a pre-conflict population of 5,000. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky said on Sunday that Kyiv intends to establish a “buffer zone” on Russian soil.
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