Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that his country's military incursion into Russia’s Kursk region aims to create a buffer zone to prevent further attacks by Moscow across the border.
“It is now our primary task in defensive operations overall: to destroy as much Russian war potential as possible and conduct maximum counteroffensive actions. This includes creating a buffer zone on the aggressor’s territory -– our operation in the Kursk region,” he said in his nightly address.