Russia refuses to evacuate its population from Kursk region
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Russia refuses to help its residents who remain in the Kursk region. Because of this, they are turning to the Ukrainian Defense Forces for help, according to a spokesperson for the commandant's office of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sudzha, Oleksii Dmytrashkivskyi.
“We are receiving a lot of calls from relatives from different parts of the world - from Russia, Belarus, France, and Poland, whose relatives remained in the area. They have applied to all possible authorities in Russia, but have been refused,” Dmytrashkivsky says.
He adds that, according to one of the women, she was told by Russian authorities that the problems of those who are in the territory of the Kursk region controlled by Ukrainian soldiers do not concern them.
“Recently a woman from Belarus called and said she was told that people who remained in the part of Russia's territory controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not their problem and they will not be involved in the evacuation,” says the spokesperson.
Fighting in Kursk region
The Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive in the Kursk region has been going on for a month and a half, and Ukrainian troops are confidently moving forward, taking control of more than a hundred settlements.
According to RBC-Ukraine's sources, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the military and political leadership to liberate the Kursk region by October 1. On September 12, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia had launched a counterattack in the region.
