Ukraine has ordered families to evacuate Russia’s eastern city of Pokrovsk as Ukrainian forces continue to advance in Russia’s Kursk region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday Ukrainian attacks in the region showed Moscow’s threats of retaliation were a “bluff.”
President Volodymyr Zelensky: “We are now experiencing an extremely important ideological shift. Namely, the entire naive, illusory concept of so-called red lines regarding Russia, which dominated the assessment of the war by some of our partners, has crumbled these days somewhere near Sudzha. … Russian military bases and Russian military airfields, Russian logistics and other military facilities, whose existence allows Putin to avoid seeking peace, are entirely legitimate targets for our defense forces.”