Volunteers unload humanitarian aid to people evacuated from a fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces in Kursk region, at a temporary residence centre, on Sunday. A Russian governor said some evacuations were also taking place in the country's Belgorod region.
Russia on Monday evacuated civilians from parts of a second region next to Ukraine after Kyiv increased military activity near the border, just days after its biggest incursion into sovereign Russian territory since the start of the 2022 war.Volunteers unload humanitarian aid to people evacuated due to fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces in Kursk region, at a temporary residence, on Sunday.
In the neighbouring Belgorod region to the south, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said evacuations had begun from the Krasnaya Yaruga district due to "enemy activity on the border." Russian officials say Ukraine's attacks on Russian sovereign territory are aimed at showing its Western supporters that Kyiv can still muster major military operations while trying to gain a bargaining chip ahead of possible ceasefire talks.For the first time since the Russian invasion, Ukraine has launched a major incursion into Russia's Kursk region.
The International Atomic Energy Agency nuclear watchdog said its staff had seen thick, dark smoke coming from the northern part of the vast six-reactor plant in southern Ukraine, currently in "cold shutdown," after multiple blasts.
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