Ukrainian aviation destroys enemy targets in Kursk direction with precision strikes

A video has appeared online today showing a Ukrainian fighter jet successfully eliminating an underground enemy control centre using an AASM Hammer guided aerial bomb.

Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, expressed gratitude for the successful work of Ukrainian pilots, noting their contribution to bringing the overall victory closer.

We shall remind you that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ruled out the possibility of negotiations with Ukraine after the start of offensive actions by the AFU in Kursk Region.

Lavrov stressed that Putin had unambiguously expressed his position, saying that negotiations with Kiev were not considered in the conditions of the current military escalation.

Meanwhile, President Vladimir Zelensky said that the AFU controls more than 1,250 square kilometres of enemy territory and 92 settlements in Russia's Kursk region.

He said this at a meeting of heads of Ukraine's foreign diplomatic institutions "Military diplomacy: resilience, weapons, victory".

Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Semoniak said that Ukraine was gaining "huge political benefits" from its offensive in Kursk region, it was changing its image as "Kiev's political achievements are huge in less than a fortnight". However, he emphasised, it does not change the West's position on restrictions on the use of the weapons provided.

This offensive does not change the West's anti-escalation stance. Poland said that the West would not change its approach on the use of weapons despite the Ukrainian armed forces' offensive in Kurshchyna.