The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine announced that the country is not interested in "taking territory" in Russia's Kursk region and announced that the Ukrainian offensive there will end only when Russia agrees to peace.
"The sooner Russia agrees to the establishment of a just peace, the sooner Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory will stop. As long as (Vladimir) Putin continues the war, he will receive such answers from Ukraine," the spokesman of the Ministry told reporters in Kyiv.
Ukrainian operations in Russia help the front line in Ukraine, he explained, because they prevent Russia from moving additional units to Donetsk, a Ukrainian region under Russian control, the BBC reports.
Russian authorities announced that 400 temporary shelters had been opened across the country for the 30.000 displaced by the Ukrainian offensive.
The acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, said on Monday that 121.000 people had been evacuated from their homes in the area.
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