More than 76,000 people have been evacuated from the regions bordering Ukraine in Russia's Kursk region, the local Ministry of Emergency Situations announced today , quoted by TASS.
This is happening against the backdrop of the Ukrainian invasion of the region that began this week.
Russia is waging intense fighting against thousands of Ukrainian soldiers up to 20 kilometers deep inside the Kursk region, and this is the largest Ukrainian attack on Russian sovereign territory since the war began in 2022, Reuters notes.