Ukraine is advancing further into Russia’s Kursk region after claiming hundreds of square kilometers of territory.
THE CNN discovered online job openings for trench diggers in the Kursk region of Russia, and satellite imagery shows that a new trench system has been dug in the region.
Jobs offered online for anyone who can help with the work to stop Ukraine’s advance have payouts ranging from 150,000 to 371,000 Russian rubles (R$8,700 to R$21,800).
Satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies captured on Monday (August 12) shows Russian trenches in Selektsionny and Lgov in the Kursk region.
Ukrainians view counterattack with a mixture of satisfaction and fear
As Kiev’s forces advance deeper into Russia after last week’s surprise incursion, Ukrainians living near the border are watching with mixed feelings: a sense of justice combined with fear of what might come next.
“This is the consequence of the Russians invading our land,” Hanna Fedorkovska told CNN at an evacuation center in Sumy, a city south of the border.
“We entered their territory not because we wanted to enter, but because they came to our home and took away our peaceful life. Now they have to deal with it. I hope it will not be in vain and that we will achieve peace.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday (13) that Kiev’s forces were advancing deeper into Russia after reclaiming hundreds of square kilometers of its territory.
Kiev said its troops have expanded a “buffer zone” inside Russia, which they say will better protect communities in northern Ukraine.
Fedorkovska, 21, came to the evacuation center with her 72-year-old grandmother, who was inconsolable after having to leave her husband and the home they shared for 52 years.
The two women were among hundreds of Ukrainians evacuated from border areas in recent days. Fedorkovska, a student, said her 85-year-old grandfather insisted on staying behind, telling her: “You save your grandmother, and I will protect what we have.”
The surprise counterattack brought a much-needed boost to the Ukrainian army, but it also left some Ukrainians, including Fedorkovska and her grandmother, worried about what will happen when Russia builds up enough troops in the area for a counteroffensive.
“I wish good luck to our soldiers, because if they fail to hold the Russian territories they have now occupied, I think there will be a lot of problems in the Sumy region. It will be the second Mariupol, I think,” Sergey Zemlyakov, a former soldier who fought in the eastern Donbass region in 2014 and 2015, told CNN at the evacuation center.
Source: CNN Brasil
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