“Ukraine is not interested in occupying the areas on the Russian border, including the Kursk region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are carrying out tasks related to ensuring security along the Ukrainian border,” said Adviser to the Chief of Staff of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyakh, who posted about the matter on the social network X, UNN reported.
In the areas bordering Russia, including the Kursk region, Ukraine is solving only security-related problems. Ukraine is not interested in occupying these areas. However, Ukraine is interested in the actual destruction of many Russian military facilities, the elimination of remnants of Russian forces behind the lines that allow artillery and ballistic missile attacks on Ukrainian territory, the creation of a security zone around the Ukrainian border, and the destruction of military logistics and infrastructure (including storage bases, training centers, and equipment concentrations).
– Podoljak wrote.
He emphasized that Ukraine and Russia are fighting different wars, which have clear legal definitions. As Podolyakh noted, if Russia had deliberately attacked Ukraine with the aim of killing civilians and occupying its territory, that would be an absolute war crime, but Ukraine “is fighting an exclusively defensive war, including on the territory of the aggressor, to ensure the protection of its own population, which is Ukraine’s absolute right,” Podolyakh said.
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