“Earlier, the Russian side declared an attempt of the Armed Forces to attach to the territory of the Russian Federation in the western part of the Belgorod region”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Ukraine fulfills its task in the Kursk region – the Ukrainian military will be there as long as we need this operation. As I said, Kursk Operation performed the maximum things. Our boys stand there in place and not surrounded and show that Putin does not manage who, where to go. Moreover, there is an operation: someone came out, someone seems that someone ran, and somewhere in another corner came. These are absolutely understandable our strategic steps as long as the enemy in our territory … ”, – he said, commenting on the report of military operation in the Belgorod region.
Answering the question, Zelensky also said that the forces of defense saw a new accumulation of Russian troops at the border of Sumy region.
“We see what they want to do, they want to strike in Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya regions. That’s what we see. Well, so easy we will not do it, ”he said.
The Russian Defense Ministry in the evening of March 18 stated that to “create a negative background around the negotiations of the Presidents of the Russian Federation and the US” in the morning, the Armed Forces units made an attempt to put into the territory of the Russian Federation in the western part of the Belgorod region in the direction of the settlements of Demidovka and Prylezier.