Zelenskiy aide says ‘root cause of any escalation’, including into Kursk, is Moscow’s ‘unequivocal aggression’
Ukraine has publicly justified its attack into Russian territory for the first time, amid reports that its forces are advancing towards a village 13 miles (20km) inside the Kursk region on the third day of its incursion.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to the president’s office, said “the root cause of any escalation”, including into Kursk, was “unequivocal aggression” on the part of Russia in believing it could invade Ukraine with impunity.
The statement is the first acknowledgment by any leading Ukrainian official of the ongoing offensive amid silence from the country’s military on events in the Russian region. “War is war, with its own rules, where the aggressor inevitably reaps corresponding outcomes,” Podolyak added.
Yes, I think this is a very crucial point, Russia has pretty much been able to control which points are hot spots, so they could concentrate forces there.
But now Ukraine has been able to push through, because they chose a poorly defended area into Russia, instead of trying to push Russians back on the front lines in Ukraine.
They have made an offensive that wasn’t costly, but they can still make costly for Russia to take back. So now part of the war is on Russian ground, and destroying Russia instead of Ukraine. Literally taking the war to Russia.