Russia declares an emergency in Kursk, under attack by Ukraine. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia declared a “federal-level” emergency in the Kursk region following a large-scale incursion from Ukraine and sent reinforcements there on Friday, four days after hundreds of Ukrainian troops poured across the border in what appeared to be Kyiv’s biggest attack on Russian soil since the war began. Watch: Ukraine wipes out entire battalion inside Russia ‘in one of war’s bloodiest strikes’ https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-russian-drives-past-trail-114519189.html A Ukrainian rocket attack left a trail of dead Russian soldiers and burnt-out military vehicles in “one of the bloodiest strikes of the war”. Night-time footage emerged early on Friday showing what appeared to be a line of military trucks ablaze on a road in the Kursk region of Russia. A separate video, shared on Russian social media, appeared to have been taken by someone driving past the aftermath of the apparent strike.
Ukraine has been striking targets deep inside Russian territory. Many of the attacks have focused on airbases or energy infrastructure. Experts told BI that Ukraine was hoping to cause strategic, economic, and psychological damage to Russia. In late July, Ukraine said it had struck a Russian Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber at Olenya airbase in Murmansk, a record-breaking 1,100 miles inside Russian territory. Ukraine does not currently have permission to use long-range guided weapons such as the ATACMS to hit such targets inside Russia. It has instead made use of cheap, domestically-produced drones for long-range attacks, Mark Cancian, a Senior Adviser on the International Security Program at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, told BI.
