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UKRAINE has managed to seize as much Russian land in just eight days of their mini invasion as Putin’s forces achieved in the last year.
A trembling Vlad has been left fuming over the continued incursion as he has called on the Kremlin to deploy more troops into Kursk to “kick the enemy out”.
Kyiv now claims to control 74 settlements in Kusrk and a formidable 1,000 square kilometres of enemy soil as of Tuesday eveningReuters
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Ukraine’s armed forces have stormed across the border in beefed up convoys including tanks and aircraft since starting to attack on August 6.
Kyiv now claims to control 74 settlements in Kusrk and a formidable 1,000 square kilometres of enemy soil as of Tuesday evening.
With the figure expected to continue to increase as they push on with their fiery war plans, says general Oleksander Syrsky.
Since the start of 2024, Russia has only managed to steal 994 square kilometres of land inside Ukraine, claim Telegraph analysis.
Reports vary on the exact figure the Kremlin has been able to seize however with US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) giving Putin credit for taking over 1,100 square miles around Donetsk.
But Moscow has also lost around 300,000 troops from the battlefield in this time with many killed or severely wounded, according to Ukrainian military estimates.
The number of casualties continue to rise in Kursk with Putin’s men struggling to halt the Ukrainian advance.
Its estimated that the Ukrainians have also captured up to 1,200 of their rival soldiers in the staggering surge.
Marking a huge confidence boost for Volodymyr Zelensky’s men and a bitter blow for Putin.
Vlad continues to grapples with being the first Russian leader to surrender home turf since the Second World War with him being left scrambling to stop the incursion.
Russian officials sparked a major counter-terror operation in the three border regions of Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk after they first felt the Ukrainian offensive.
As they sent their own tanks, trucks and troops in to fight.
Aerial attacks have been traded each night with both forces decimating each other in the barrages across the war-torn region.
But Ukraine’s president Zelensky has vowed to go “even deeper” into Russia in the coming days as he prepares to hit back at Putin after more than two gruelling years of defending.
His planned assaults are proving successful with a state of emergency being declared Belgorod today.
The local governor of the region says they have suffered 23 drone attacks in the past 24 hours.
Belgorod is the second Russian area after Kursk City to show the full effects of the Ukrainian comeback.
Ukraine’s latest blitz saw massive kamikaze drone and missile strikes overnight on Tuesday.
Some 117 drones targeted at least nine regions across Russia – hitting two crucial airfields in Mad Vlad‘s territory.
One of them includes the Savasleyka military base in the Nizhny Novgorod, home to lethal hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and MiG-31K aircraft used to bomb Ukraine.
An aircraft-type drone was seen in the sky ahead of the strike with a total of ten “arrivals” reported.
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XDramatic first person footage has also captured Ukraine’s valiant soldiers going on a daring ambush of Russian troops in Kursk.
Dressed in camouflaged bodysuits the men can be seen running through the woods hunting Putin’s men with grenades, guns and rockets.
Ukraine’s special forces say they managed to burn all of the equipment and eliminated the “enemy personnel in four minutes”.
Putin’s illegal invasion in 2022 has led to the Kremlin currently controlling nearly a fifth of Ukrainian territory after two-and-a-half years of fighting.
Ukraine’s surprise push into Russia has been widely seen as an attempt to divert fighting away from its own turf and to save them some valuable time to regroup.
Zelensky has said Ukraine captured “more than 100 Russian servicemen” in the past week and this was done to help “speed up the return home of our boys and girls”.
Vlad has speculated the surge was driven “with the help of Western masters” to gain leverage at the negotiating table for potential peace talks.
Some Kremlin sources even blamed Britain for the mini invasion.
The latest assaults on Russia have come just days after Putin desperately scrambled to avoid losing more ground as he reshuffled his units.
He reportedly called in his ex-bodyguard, Alexei Dyumin, to lead the desperate defence of Kursk as Russian casualties pile up.
Dyumin, 51, is now coordinating the defence ministry, security agencies and regional authorities in the rush to save Russia.
Dyumin is regarded as a potential successor to Putin as the despot is said to be full of praise for his former protector.
Why has Ukraine invaded Russia?
UKRAINE’S daring invasion into Russia has been launched for two key reasons – with one aimed at Putin and one at the West.
A high-ranking Ukrainian official told AFP that the idea behind the attack is to stretch Putin’s armies as much as possible, spreading them thinly over different areas.
The security brass told AFP on condition of anonymity that “the aim is to stretch the positions of the enemy, to inflict maximum losses and to destabilise the situation in Russia as they are unable to protect their own border”.
As well as acting as a huge morale-boosting win for Ukraine – the invasion also has a second key purpose in Kyiv’s masterplan.
It is a message to allies in the West who have closely monitored Putin’s war.
Military analyst Franz-Stefan Gady told The Washington Post: “This is definitely one consideration that it is really a signal to the West and to Ukrainian allies and partners that Ukraine is still capable of launching offensive operations.
“That Ukraine is capable of conducting fairly complex operations into enemy territory.”
Vlad on the other hand claims Ukraine are simply trying to gain leverage for peace talk negotiations.
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