Summary of the day
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said his country’s forces are continuing to advance into Russian territory after their surprise offensive.
The head Ukraine’s armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, has said Kyiv has set up a military commandant’s office in the occupied part of Russia’s Kursk region.
He said his forces were still advancing and had taken up to 1.5 km (0.93 miles) in the last 24 hours.
Alexei Smirnov, Kursk’s acting governor, said that the Glushkov district was being evacuated.
Russia’s emergency ministry declared a federal level emergency in the Belgorod region.
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said the US will provide additional security packages for Ukraine in the coming days, told MSNBC on Thursday.
British Challenger 2 tanks are thought to have been used in Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia, the UK’s PA Media reported.
A Russian court today sentenced a Russian-American, Ksenia Karelina, to 12 years in jail on treason charges. The charge against Karelina was based on a donation of just over $50 she made to a charity supporting Ukraine.
Russian guided bomb attacks today killed at least two people and injured seven more in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, local authorities said, Reuters reported.
