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00:00The defence ministry says its forces have recaptured 10 settlements in the Kursk region
00:04from Ukraine.
00:05It released images showing what it said were pontoon crossings being built over a river
00:10and Ukrainian military vehicles destroyed by Russian troops.
00:14It said the videos were filmed in the Kursk region.
00:18In Kiev, the Ukrainian president, in a press briefing with his Lithuanian counterpart,
00:22confirmed Russian actions in Kursk and also responded to a question about the threat from
00:27neighbouring Belarus, which has amassed troops close to the Ukrainian border.
00:32Russians have started counter-offensive actions.
00:35It goes according to our Ukrainian plan.
00:38As for Belarus, we've been watching this cluster, watching it for a long time.
00:42We control this process.
00:45Ukraine launched its incursion into Russia on the 6th of August.
00:48Its commander-in-chief said late last month that Kiev had seized 100 settlements and almost
00:531,300 square kilometres of territory.
00:56He said it hoped Moscow would divert troops to Kursk from eastern Ukraine.
01:01The Russian counter-attack in Kursk comes as the U.S. Secretary of State says Washington
01:05will quickly review Kiev's long-standing request to give Ukraine more leeway to use Western
01:10supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia.
01:14I can again assure that we will adapt, we will adjust and make sure that Ukraine has
01:21what it needs, when it needs it, to deal with this Russian aggression.
01:25The Russian president says letting Kiev use longer range weapons to strike Russian targets
01:30would mean NATO would be at war with Russia.
01:35This is their direct involvement and this of course would in a significant way change
01:40the very essence, the very nature of the conflict.
01:42It will mean that NATO countries, the United States, European countries are at war with
01:47Russia.
01:51In Ukraine, the Russian army has moved deeper into the east with the key city of Pokrovsk
01:56without a drinking water supply and gas for cooking and heating.
01:59Moscow's forces have battered Ukrainian territory with relentless missile and drone attacks.