Russian column purportedly ambushed in surprise Ukrainian incursion in Kursk region
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00:00Authorities in Ukraine's capital still not commenting.
00:03It's day four of an incursion into the Russian border province of Kursk.
00:08Russian social media is alight.
00:11The Reuters news agency confirming verification for images that show the destruction of an
00:16entire Russian column of 12 trucks ambushed in the Rilskiy district of Kursk.
00:25Emmanuelle Schaas reports from the eastern front and the town of Pokrovsk.
00:33With Russia declaring the federal state of emergency, we can see just how chaotic is
00:39the situation in Russia.
00:41We know that fighting continues in Kursk region from the Russian side on Russian television
00:49channels and information channels also and on social media.
00:53Here in Ukraine, there's still operational silence.
00:56There's no information filtrating on the fighting itself.
01:00We had comments earlier from the advisor to the presidency, Mihailo Podoliak, talking
01:06about the end of impunity for Russia with this war coming back to its own territory
01:12and Volodymyr Zelensky was mentioning Russia that, according to him, needed to feel what
01:17it was doing to Ukraine.
01:19Strategically, we had mentioned earlier that one of the reasons for those incursions could
01:25be to try and force Russia to move troops from the eastern front towards Kursk region
01:31to respond to that Ukrainian incursion.
01:35I am presently in Pokrovsk.
01:38It's one of the cities that is most under pressure here near the front line because
01:43this front line is coming closer every day because Russia has thrown in a lot of troops
01:49in the Pokrovsk direction because this is one of its main objectives in the West.
01:55Here, air raid alerts continue, bombing continue.
01:59Just nearby in the city of Konstantinovka earlier today, a supermarket was bombed.
02:04There's already scores of people who have been found injured.
02:10There's also many dead.
02:12So here on the eastern front, we do not notice yet whether or not those incursions aimed
02:18at diverting the Russian army from the eastern front as one of its objectives.
02:24We do not note any difference.
02:26It is an everyday war here in the eastern part of Ukraine.