Putin accuses Ukraine of a ‘large-scale provocation’ as troops cross into Russia's Kursk region

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00:00A crisis meeting to discuss the situation in Russia's Kursk region.

00:05Moscow has accused Ukrainian troops of crossing the border and launching a massive attack

00:09on Tuesday, prompting authorities to declare a state of emergency in the region.

00:15As you know, the Kiev regime has undertaken another large-scale provocation and launched

00:20indiscriminate shelling of civilian buildings, residential houses, ambulances with different

00:26types of weapons, including missiles.

00:30This footage shows damaged roads, houses and cars in the Russian town of Suja after Ukrainian

00:35shelling.

00:36It's been geolocated, but the date of when it was taken hasn't been confirmed.

00:40The defence ministry says the ground attack was thwarted, releasing these images claiming

00:44to show Russian drone attacks on Ukrainian armoured vehicles.

00:48Kiev has yet to comment on any of these reports, but the head of the Ukrainian region of Sumy,

00:53which sits just south of Kursk, has ordered the evacuation of 6,000 people living near

00:58the border.

00:59If confirmed, the attack would mark the first incursion of its kind from Ukraine, though

01:03groups of anti-Kremlin Russians have launched raids before which were repelled.

01:09It's unclear why Ukraine would have launched such an attack.

01:11Some analysts say it would be to draw Russian reserves to the area to weaken Moscow's offensive

01:15operations in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces are making gains.

01:21That could also risk stretching Ukrainian troops further along the front line, which

01:25is over 1,000 kilometres long.

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