Video released on Monday shows the governor of Russia's Belgorod
region going door to door in villages, encouraging residents
to evacuate in the face of new Ukrainian military operations
. Belgorod is the second region next to Ukraine where
Russia urged civilians to leave. And it comes almost
a week after Ukraine launched a stunning cross border incursion
that caught Moscow by surprise. Ukrainian fighters shared videos
of themselves in the Kursk region, removing a Russian
flag from a building and hoisting their own blue and
yellow banner. Another Ukrainian soldier shared this selfie from
the Russian town of Suja complaining that a Russian supermarket
chain was inferior to a Ukrainian. One. Ukrainian
forces rammed through the Russian border last Tuesday and swept
across some western parts of Russia's Kursk region. A
surprise attack that may be aimed at gaining leverage in
possible ceasefire talks after the US election in November over
the weekend. Russian President Vladimir Zelensky publicly acknowledged the
operation for the first time on Sunday. He shared
a video saying that Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine from
the Kursk region deserved a fair response. The Ukrainian
attack has prompted some in Moscow to question why Ukraine
was able to pierce the Kursk region so easily after
more than two years of the most intense land war
in Europe since world war, I I Russian President
Vladimir Putin on Monday alleged that Ukraine was trying to
undermine Russian stability with its incursion. He said,
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