The Kursk region of Russia is currently under the authority of 1,000 square kilometers, according to a top Ukrainian officer.

The senior military commander of Ukraine has stated that his forces currently hold 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of the Kursk region that borders Russia. This is the first time a Ukrainian military official has acknowledged in public the successes of the lightning assault that has caused embarrassment to the Kremlin.

The remarks were made by General Oleksandr Syrskyi in a video that was uploaded on Monday to the Telegram account of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He gave the president a briefing on the front-line situation in the video.

"The soldiers are doing their jobs as assigned. Actually, fighting is still going on all the way to the front line. We have control over the issue, stated Syrskyi.

Almost a week after the unexpected Ukrainian invasion, Russian forces are still unsure how to react.
Russia's military assault by Ukraine
Roughly ten thousand Ukrainian soldiers, backed by tanks and armored vehicles, entered Russia and invaded multiple locations up to fifteen miles in length.
More than 100,000 civilians have fled as a result of the incursion, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who described it as an attempt by Kyiv to halt Moscow's operation in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and to obtain leverage in potential future peace negotiations.
For the first time, Zelenskyy verified that the Ukrainian military is conducting operations within the Kursk region. He commended the troops and leaders of his nation "for their steadfastness and decisive actions" on Telegram.
He didn't go into detail. Additionally, he proposed that Ukraine provide aid to the area on a humanitarian basis.

Speaking on Monday during a meeting with senior defense and security officials, Putin claimed that the attack that started on August 6 seemed to be an attempt by Kyiv to get a stronger negotiating position in any potential future peace negotiations. He insisted that the army of Moscow would win.
Putin added that although Ukraine had anticipated that the attack would lead to disturbance in the Russian public, it has not succeeded in doing so. He also asserted that the incident has led to a rise in the number of people volunteering to join the Russian military. He declared that whatever, Russian forces will continue their offensive in eastern Ukraine.
"It's evident that the adversary will persist in attempting to undermine the circumstances in the border region in an effort to undermine the internal political climate within our nation," stated Putin. With the border service, Russia's primary goal is "to ensure dependable cover of the state border and to squeeze out, drive the enemy out of our territories."
Putin was informed by acting Kursk governor Alexei Smirnov that Ukrainian soldiers had crossed a 40-kilometer (25-mile) front to advance 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) into the Kursk region, taking control of 28 Russian villages at the time.

According to Smirnov, the operation has resulted in the deaths of 12 civilians and the injuries of 121 others, including 10 children. According to him, some 121,000 individuals have either fled the fighting-affected areas on their own or have been evacuated.
Smirnov noted that it is challenging to find all of the Ukrainian forces that are roving the area and causing havoc, adding that some of them are using fictitious Russian identification.

A district close to the Ukrainian border is being evacuated, according to the announcement made by the governor of the Belgorod area, which is adjacent to Kursk.

After initiating the attack, Ukrainian soldiers advanced quickly into the town of Sudzha, which is located approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) across the border. The western portion of the town, where a significant natural gas station is located, is supposedly still under their control.
The objectives of the Ukrainian operation are yet unknown and are shrouded in intense secrecy. The incredible move that took the Kremlin's soldiers by surprise negates Russia's relentless attempt in the past few months to breach Ukrainian fortifications at specific locations along the front line in eastern Ukraine.
Although there have been several incursions into Russia's territory throughout the course of the almost two and a half-year war, the Kursk region foray was the greatest offensive on Russian soil since World War II and was a turning point in the hostilities. Additionally, this is the first time pro-Ukrainian Russian fighters have not led an incursion instead of the Ukrainian army.

Putin's attempts to pretend that life in Russia has been mostly unaffected by the war were severely undermined by the advance. The goal of state propaganda was to divert attention from the military's lack of preparation and prompt response to the attack by downplaying it and highlighting the efforts of the government to assist the local population.
Residents of Kursk made recordings in which they bemoaned having to leave their possessions behind and begged Putin for assistance as they fled the border region. Yet any voice of dissent was tightly suppressed by Russia's state-run media.

Finished A member of the Russian parliament's lower chamber, Gen. Andrei Gurulev, chastised the military for their inadequate border protection.

He said on his messaging app channel, "Unfortunately, the group of forces guarding the border didn't have its own intelligence assets." "Everyone wants to hear that everything is fine; nobody likes to see the truth in reports."
The fighting within Russia raised concerns about whether or not Ukraine was utilizing weapons that were provided by NATO allies. For concern that it would spark an escalation that would force Russia and NATO into war, some Western nations have refused to allow Ukraine to utilize their military assistance to enter Russian territory.

Although the type of weaponry that Ukraine is utilizing across the border is unknown, Russian media extensively reported the presence of German Marder and American Bradley armored infantry vehicles. It was not possible to independently verify the assertion.
Ukraine has already launched an attack inside Russia using US weapons.

In an interview that was released on Monday, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani stated that Russia "cannot be attacked on its territory" with the armaments his nation has delivered.

In the meantime, legal experts concur, according to German Defense Ministry spokesman Arne Collatz, that "international law provides for a state that is defending itself also to defend itself on the territory of the attacker." That is evident from our perspective as well.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Monday that on the preceding day, seven attacks by Ukrainian units around Martynovka, Borki, and Korenevo had been repelled by reinforcements that had been brought to the area with the support of air forces and artillery.
According to the ministry, Russian soldiers also thwarted an attempt by mobile Ukrainian groups to penetrate far into Russian territory in the vicinity of Kauchuk.

Concentrations of Ukrainian soldiers and equipment close to Sudzha, Kurilovka, Pekhovo, Lyubimovo, and numerous other settlements were also hit by Russian artillery and air forces, the statement added. The government also stated that artillery and warplanes crossed the border to strike Kyiv's reserves in the Sumy region of Ukraine.

The hardest part of Ukraine's incursion is probably about to start as Russian reserves join the fight, according to Pasi Paroinen, an analyst with the open-source intelligence organization Black Bird Group, located in Finland and responsible for tracking the conflict.