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ENB Pub Note: The Ukraine intrusion into Russia has many implications, and one of the most important is the fighting around the Sudzha area. This is an area important with natural gas pipelines and could be impactful for years if these assets are hit. With Ukraine not renewing its contracts to transport Russian Natural Gas past 2024, there could be some additional issues cropping out of this.
Ukraine say Russia struck Kyiv with North Korean missiles
Kremlin ground forces continue to press in Donetsk region
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged allies to allow Ukraine to strike deep into Russian territory as his troops continue to hold ground gained in a surprise cross-border incursion last week and a missile attack killed two near Kyiv.
Russia’s defense ministry said its troops fired on Ukrainian soldiers in the western Kursk region in a bid to repel the first foreign incursion on its territory since World War II. The ministry said Sunday it downed four missiles and 35 drones over Kursk and neighboring regions overnight.
Moscow said earlier it was bringing in reinforcements to help quell Ukraine’s surprise cross-border attack — the biggest assault within Russia since President Vladimir Putin ordered a supposedly quick “special military operation” against Ukraine in 2022 that’s now well in its third year.
Officials in Kyiv have been tight-lipped about their goals, as they were during counteroffensives in 2022 and 2023. Zelenskiy said in his nightly address on Saturday that Army Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi was keeping him informed about “our actions to push the war out into the aggressor‘s territory” without offering more details.
Ukraine Continues Incursion Into Russia’s Kursk Region
Source: Institute for the Study of WarNote: Map shows control areas and events as of August 8, 2024
Zelenskiy thanked his forces for creating “the kind of pressure that is needed – pressure on the aggressor.”
Natural Gas Pipelines – Ukraine – Russia – Source Global Energy Monitor
Russia struck several regions of Ukraine overnight with four North Korean ballistic missiles and 57 Shahed drones, Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk said on Telegram. Explosions were heard from the nation’s west to east.
Air alerts and explosions sounded all night around Kyiv as Russia launched multiple missile attacks, killing a man and his 4-year-old son. A terrible reminder that Russia has not stopped its illegal invasion of Ukraine’s sovereign territory and its bombing of peaceful civilians. pic.twitter.com/Sj782XuafZ
— Ambassador Bridget A. Brink (@USAmbKyiv) August 11, 2024
The KN-23 missiles were fired from the Voronezh region of Russia, Oleshchuk said, adding that Ukraine shot down 53 drones.
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The US and South Korea have accused North Korea of sending millions of rounds of munitions and scores of ballistic missiles to Russia to aid in the invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow and Pyongyang have denied despite evidence showing arms shipments taking place.
A residential building in the Brovary district east of the capital was destroyed in the overnight attack, killing a father and his four-year-old son and seriously injuring at least three others, regional authorities said.
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