Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service,

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I'm Julian Marshall.

President Putin has declared a federal level state of emergency on day four of a large

Ukrainian military incursion into the Russian border region of Kursk, with more troops and munitions being rushed

to the area.

The Ukrainians haven't acknowledged crossing the border, but President Zelensky has said that Russia must feel the consequences of its

full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The BBC has been able to verify a video showing a

15-vehicle Russian convoy damaged, burned and abandoned in the Kursk region.

The footage also shows Russian soldiers injured and possibly dead among the wreckage.

This evening footage has been circulated on local telegram channels of Ukrainian drone

strike on a substation near Kurz causing a fire and subsequent blackout.

At the UN Nuclear Agency has urged both Russia and Ukraine to exercise maximum restraint quoting reports of significant military

activity near a nuclear power plant. The BBC Russian service has

spoken anonymously to women in the border town of Sutcha who were forced to

evacuate this clip originally appeared on BBC Russian social media

and has been translated and voiced over by a producer.

From half one in the Bambit,

we've seen, dahl, dahl, dahl, pakazahni.

From half one in the morning they started to bomb us. We all waited and waited and waited while things calmed down.

At 7 a.m. we got together with our relatives and children, packed our things and sat, waited and thought about when to leave. and we just loaded up the car and left.

Ukraine has also attacked a Russian air base in the Lippesc region northeast of Kursk. The Ukrainian drones attacking the airbase. The Ukrainians say they've destroyed dozens of Russian

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