للمرة الأولى منذ تحريرها، زار الرئيس الروسي فلاديمير بوتين مقاطعة كورسك في غرب البلاد، اليوم (الأربعاء)، بعد استعادة السيطرة عليها وطرد القوات الأوكرانية منها، بمشاركة قوات كورية شمالية، وفق ما نقلت وسائل إعلام روسية رسمية.
وأفادت وكالة «تاس» بأن الرئيس بوتين التقى بمتطوعين في مقاطعة كورسك في ملجأ إنساني، وزار محطة كورسك 2 النووية. وحضر الاجتماع القائم بأعمال حاكم المنطقة، ألكسندر خينشتاين، والنائب الأول لرئيس الإدارة الرئاسية، سيرجي كيريينكو.
وتقع كورسك في غرب روسيا، على حدود منطقة سومي الأوكرانية.
وفي الـ6 من أغسطس 2024، فجرت أوكرانيا إحدى أكبر مفاجآت الحرب عندما اجتاحت قواتها الحدود، وسيطرت على قطعة أرض قالت إن مساحتها بلغت 1,376 كيلومتراً مربعاً (530 ميلاً مربعاً) في ذروتها، وتضمنت حوالى 100 بلدة وقرية.
ومنذ ذلك الحين، استعادت القوات الروسية وقوات من كوريا الشمالية، حليفة موسكو، معظم تلك الأراضي.
وقال الرئيس الروسي خلال اجتماع مع متطوعين إن «تشكيلات الجيش الأوكراني دمّرت نصب تذكارية تعود لحقبة الحرب العالمية الثانية، ما يكشف عن جوهرها الوحشي»، وفق تعبيره.
وأشار أحد المشاركين في الاجتماع إلى أن «الأوكرانيين يهاجمون النصب التذكارية، ويكثفون ضرباتهم بالطائرات المسيرة خصوصاً عند وجود المتطوعين في عين المكان»، وفق قوله.
وقال بوتين: من الواضح من نحارب عندما يقومون بشكل مباشر بتدمير النصب التذكارية للحرب العالمية الثانية، مضيفاً: هذا يمنحنا كل الحق في القول إننا نواجه أشخاصاً يتبنون أيديولوجيا النازية الجديدة، على حد وصفه.
ونشرت كوريا الشمالية آلاف الجنود ووفرت كميات هائلة من ذخيرة المدفعية والصواريخ؛ ما ساعد روسيا في صد التوغل الأوكراني في منطقة كورسك بغرب البلاد.
واستمرت العملية في المنطقة حتى استعادتها 264 يوماً. وفي 26 أبريل الماضي، أبلغ رئيس هيئة الأركان العامة للقوات المسلحة في الاتحاد الروسي فاليري جيراسيموف بوتين باستكمال عملية تحرير منطقة كورسك.
ووفقاً لاستخبارات كوريا الجنوبية، لقي نحو 600 جندي كوري شمالي حتفهم أثناء مشاركتهم في القتال إلى جانب روسيا ضد أوكرانيا، من إجمالي 15 ألف جندي جرى نشرهم في المنطقة.
وكان الزعيم الكوري الشمالي كيم جونج أون، اعتبر مشاركة كوريا الشمالية في الحرب بين روسيا وأوكرانيا مبررة، واصفا إياها بأنها ممارسة للحقوق السيادية دفاعاً عن «شعب شقيق».
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For the first time since its liberation, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Kursk region in the west of the country today (Wednesday), after regaining control and expelling Ukrainian forces from it, with the participation of North Korean troops, according to official Russian media reports.
The TASS news agency reported that President Putin met with volunteers in the Kursk region at a humanitarian shelter and visited the Kursk 2 nuclear power station. The meeting was attended by the acting governor of the region, Alexander Khinshtein, and the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko.
Kursk is located in western Russia, on the border with the Ukrainian Sumy region.
On August 6, 2024, Ukraine delivered one of the biggest surprises of the war when its forces stormed across the border and seized a piece of land that it claimed was 1,376 square kilometers (530 square miles) at its peak, which included about 100 towns and villages.
Since then, Russian forces and troops from North Korea, Moscow's ally, have regained most of that territory.
During a meeting with volunteers, the Russian president stated that "Ukrainian army formations have destroyed memorials from the World War II era, revealing their brutal essence," as he put it.
One participant in the meeting noted that "the Ukrainians are attacking the memorials and intensifying their drone strikes, especially when volunteers are present on the ground," according to his statement.
Putin said: "It is clear who we are fighting when they directly destroy the memorials of World War II," adding: "This gives us every right to say that we are facing people who adopt a neo-Nazi ideology," as he described it.
North Korea has deployed thousands of soldiers and provided vast quantities of artillery and missile ammunition, which helped Russia repel the Ukrainian incursion in the Kursk region of western Russia.
The operation in the region lasted until it was regained for 264 days. On April 26, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Valery Gerasimov, informed Putin that the operation to liberate the Kursk region had been completed.
According to South Korean intelligence, about 600 North Korean soldiers have died while participating in the fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine, out of a total of 15,000 soldiers that were deployed in the region.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un considered North Korea's participation in the war between Russia and Ukraine justified, describing it as an exercise of sovereign rights in defense of a "brotherly people."
The TASS news agency reported that President Putin met with volunteers in the Kursk region at a humanitarian shelter and visited the Kursk 2 nuclear power station. The meeting was attended by the acting governor of the region, Alexander Khinshtein, and the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko.
Kursk is located in western Russia, on the border with the Ukrainian Sumy region.
On August 6, 2024, Ukraine delivered one of the biggest surprises of the war when its forces stormed across the border and seized a piece of land that it claimed was 1,376 square kilometers (530 square miles) at its peak, which included about 100 towns and villages.
Since then, Russian forces and troops from North Korea, Moscow's ally, have regained most of that territory.
During a meeting with volunteers, the Russian president stated that "Ukrainian army formations have destroyed memorials from the World War II era, revealing their brutal essence," as he put it.
One participant in the meeting noted that "the Ukrainians are attacking the memorials and intensifying their drone strikes, especially when volunteers are present on the ground," according to his statement.
Putin said: "It is clear who we are fighting when they directly destroy the memorials of World War II," adding: "This gives us every right to say that we are facing people who adopt a neo-Nazi ideology," as he described it.
North Korea has deployed thousands of soldiers and provided vast quantities of artillery and missile ammunition, which helped Russia repel the Ukrainian incursion in the Kursk region of western Russia.
The operation in the region lasted until it was regained for 264 days. On April 26, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Valery Gerasimov, informed Putin that the operation to liberate the Kursk region had been completed.
According to South Korean intelligence, about 600 North Korean soldiers have died while participating in the fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine, out of a total of 15,000 soldiers that were deployed in the region.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un considered North Korea's participation in the war between Russia and Ukraine justified, describing it as an exercise of sovereign rights in defense of a "brotherly people."
