{"id":431685,"date":"2024-09-17T03:43:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T22:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=431685"},"modified":"2024-09-17T03:43:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T22:43:38","slug":"russia-evacuates-border-villages-in-kursk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/russia-evacuates-border-villages-in-kursk-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia evacuates border villages in Kursk region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> MOSCOW<br \/>\nRussia is evacuating a number of villages in the Kursk region close to the Ukrainian border, the local governor said on Monday, almost six weeks after Ukraine launched its surprise incursion. Moscow appears to be mounting a counter-offensive in the region, claiming to have retaken at least a dozen villages from Ukraine\u2019s control since last week.<br \/>\nAuthorities have decided to order the \u201cobligatory evacuation of settlements in the Rylsky and Khomutovsky districts that are within a 15-kilometer (nine-mile) zone adjacent to the border with Ukraine,\u201d Governor Alexei Smirnov said on Telegram. He did not say which villages would be evacuated or the number of evacuees. There are dozens of villages and towns within this 15-kilometer radius.<br \/>\nMore than 150,000 people in the region have had to flee their homes since Kyiv\u2019s offensive began on August 6, state media reported Smirnov as saying last week. Ukraine says its forces have advanced across tens of kilometers of Russian territory and seized dozens of settlements, including the border town of Sudzha.<br \/>\nUkraine\u2019s incursion \u2014 which began more than two years after Russia launched a full-scale military assault on its neighbor \u2014 caught Moscow off-guard.<br \/>\nIt is the biggest incursion by a foreign army on Russian territory since World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW Russia is evacuating a number of villages in the Kursk region close to the Ukrainian border, the local governor said on Monday, almost six weeks after Ukraine launched its surprise incursion. Moscow appears to be mounting a counter-offensive in the region, claiming to have retaken at least a dozen villages from Ukraine\u2019s control since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-431685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russia evacuates border villages in Kursk region<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/russia-evacuates-border-villages-in-kursk-region\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russia evacuates border villages in Kursk region\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MOSCOW Russia is evacuating a number of villages in the Kursk region close to the Ukrainian border, the local governor said on Monday, almost six weeks after Ukraine launched its surprise incursion. 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