JAKARTA - Russian troops will release entire territory on Russia's border, Kursk territory, from Ukrainian forces in the near future, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu said.
"The Kursk area will soon be cleared of militants as part of a counterterrorism operation. The success of Operation Flow using parts of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod strategic gas pipeline has been successfully entered into the history of military science. According to the military command, the entire Kursk area will soon be swept away," he explained to TASS, as quoted April 24.
The former defense minister further said the situation in the special military operations zone is now a key factor affecting international affairs and the situation in Russia's interior.
"To this day, the Russian armed forces have freed more than 99 percent of the Lugansk People's Republic and nearly two-thirds of the Kherson region, Donetsk People's Republic and Zaporozhye. Russian troops move forward along the line of fighting, freeing new settlements. The situation changes according to our wishes every day," Shoigu explained.
He also said it was important to "document crimes committed by terrorists from Ukraine and other countries, as well as the damage they have done without delay."
"Given the atrocities committed by the militants in the Kursk Region, no one will escape the sentence. Those who are still alive will be charged as terrorists, and each of them will be punished properly," Shoigu stressed.
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Ukraine on August 6 launched its biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War Two, breaking through borders to the western Kursk region supported by swarms of drones and heavy weapons, including Western weapons.
Ukrainian troops seized about 1,300 square km (500 square miles) of Russia's Kursk territory in what Kyiv called an attempt to gain a bargaining position in upcoming negotiations and forced Russia to divert troops from eastern Ukraine.
But in mid-February, Russia reclaimed at least 800 square km (300 square miles) of the Kursk region and in recent days launched a massive offensive from various directions threatening to cut off Ukraine's supply lines and potential troop withdrawal routes.
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