The war between Russia and Ukraine continues unabated and according to the European Union Kiev has every right to attack. President Zelensky announced that Moscow will have to suffer war.
Zelensky: “Now it is Moscow that must suffer the war”
"I am grateful to every soldier and commander who ensures the protection of our Ukrainian positions and the fulfillment of our defense tasks. Ukrainians know how to achieve their goals” said the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in his speech, adding that “Russia brought war to our land and must feel what it has done.". Ukraine controls the gas metering station in Sudzha, Russia, as reported by the Washington Post, which cited an advisor to Zelensky. According to the source, it is unlikely that the station will be used as leverage in the war, because the pipeline passes through Ukraine.
The first F-16 fighter supplied by Western countries to Ukraine flew over Kakhovka, in the Kherson region, occupied by the Russians. The head of the district Pavel Pilipchuck stated that the overflights are intended to “sow panic” and called on the population to remain calm, adding that they will be destroyed. “Since the first day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Kiev has combined political, diplomatic and military efforts to receive the F-16s: now the first fighters are in the Ukrainian skies and more will arrive” the president wrote on X Zelensky.
“Ukraine is fighting a legitimate war of defense”
"Ukraine is fighting a legitimate war of defense against illegal aggression and, within the framework of this legitimate right to defend itself, has the right to strike the enemy wherever it deems necessary on its territory but also in enemy territory” said a spokesperson for the European Commission in response to journalists' questions on the Ukrainian incursion into the Russian Kursk region. The vice-president of the Russian Security Council stated that Russia must make the operation military “explicitly extraterritorial” and should include the taking of Kiev. "We will only stop when we deem it acceptable and advantageous"He concluded.
Russian forces shot down 16 drones in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, as known by the Moscow Defense Ministry. The acting deputy governor of Musk's Russian region, Andrey Belostotsky, claims that four people died after attacks by Ukrainian armed forces in the oblast. The Ukrainian incursion, as stated by Mykhail Podoliak, advisor to the Ukrainian presidential administration, is a consequence of Russian aggression against Ukraine.