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00:00Since its incursion into Russia's Kursk region, Ukraine has always insisted it has no intention
00:06of holding on to the territory.
00:08On Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the offensive was one of the elements of a
00:12peace plan that he would show to Joe Biden and his potential successors.
00:17It will be fair to present this plan to the US president.
00:23The success of this plan depends on him.
00:26I think I will present this plan to him during a meeting in September.
00:30I think it would be the right thing to do to convey this plan to both Kamala Harris
00:35and Donald Trump.
00:39Ukraine's military chief said his forces now controlled nearly 1,300 square kilometers
00:44of Kursk territory, including 100 settlements.
00:50To date, 594 servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation have been captured
00:55in this direction.
00:59After holding a so-called peace summit in June with international partners, Zelensky
01:03indicated he saw a second summit as a forum for peace talks.
01:08But over a week ago, Russia's foreign minister said such negotiations with Ukraine were out
01:12of the question after the Kursk offensive.
01:16The incursion does come with risks for Ukraine, and to give it a boost, Kyiv wants less restrictions
01:21on US-supplied weapons.
01:23Washington restricts the use of long-range ballistic missiles it provides Ukraine, which
01:28Kyiv wants to aim at military targets in Russia.
01:31On Tuesday, the army said it had recently carried out the first successful test of a
01:35domestically produced ballistic missile, as part of efforts to become less dependent on
01:40Western weapons.