Russia said it evacuated more than 76,000 people from its western Kursk border region on Saturday, according to the state-run TASS news agency, as Ukraine pressed on with its biggest attack on Russian soil since the war began almost two and a half years ago. In response to the incursion, Russia launched a military operation and sent additional troops, equipment and aviation unites to try to stop Ukrainian troops from advancing.
Struggling to put down a major Ukrainian incursion for a fifth day, Russia on Saturday said it had evacuated tens of thousands of people from its border region, launched a "counter-terror operation" and warned that the fighting was endangering a nuclear power plant.
