Ukrainian incursion pushes deeper into Russia

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Russia is evacuating a growing number of people from another border region as Ukraine's surprise attack continues. Some 11,000 people in the Belgorod region have been moved, Russian state media reported, because of "enemy action" near the border

Also in the programme, the US has ordered the rapid deployment of a submarine and aircraft carrier to the Middle East as fears grow of a wider regional conflict; and Bhutan's one and only Olympic competitor talks about the joys of coming last.

(Photo: Russian service members drive a tank in the area bordering Ukraine in Kursk region. Credit: Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS).

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to News Hour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service
0:08.1	studios in Central London. I'm Tim Franks. What began as a surprise one week ago is still proving a surprise in a sense,
0:17.2	just the very fact that the Ukrainian offensive across the border into southwestern Russia is still continuing and a measure of its impact
0:25.6	is that just before we came on air Vladimir Putin held one of those on-camera meetings with
0:30.4	top officials including those involved in the evacuation of thousands
0:34.0	more people in the Belgorod region the governor there is Vyashislav Gladkov.
0:39.0	We've had an alarming mourning, enemy activity on the border of the Krasnoyarski district.
0:49.0	I am sure that our servicemen will do everything to cope with the threat that has arisen.
0:54.6	But in order to protect the life and health of our population, we are starting to move people
1:00.0	who live in the Krasnoyarski district.
1:02.3	Russian State TV is aired footage. who live in the Krasnoyarski district.
1:03.0	Russian State TV has aired footage of some of the evacuees gathered at a tent camp in the city of Kursk.
1:10.0	We closed the gate and rushed through the gardens. No one knew where to go. We ran out.
1:15.5	Where should we go? What should we do? We went along the street and there was a boom.
1:20.0	Well as I mentioned just over an hour ago President Putin was seen meeting security officials.
1:26.8	He said that the Russian army must as he put it squeeze out the Ukrainians from that border region. Losses have been mounting dramatically for the Ukrainian armed forces,
1:38.0	particularly among the strongest units which the enemy has been sending to our border region.
1:42.0	The enemy will undoubtedly receive a worthy which the enemy has been sending to our border region.
1:42.6	The enemy will undoubtedly receive a worthy response,
1:46.2	and there is no doubt that we will reach all of our objectives.
1:50.1	This is the United States. on the other side of the border in Ukraine's
1:55.0	on the other side of the border in Ukraine's Sumi region.
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