Ukraine promises humanitarian corridors and access for international aid to Kursk; two medics die in Russian attack in Kharkiv region. What we know on day 904
. Ukraine also claimed on Wednesday to have shot down a Russian Su-34 jet in the Kursk region where it said it had also captured 100 Russian prisoners.
, Shaun Walker, the Guardian’s central and eastern Europe correspondent, writes. Ekaterina Schulmann, from the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, says: “What I suspect they are watching for is this: is the power still strong? Does the old man still have it in him?” Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said he met top officials to discuss the humanitarian situation and establishing a military commandant’s office “if needed”Ukraine’s top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said the Russian town of Sudzha, a transshipment hub for Russian natural gas flowing to Europe via Ukraine, was fully under Ukrainian control with gas was still flowing
. “I see that this situation at least forced the initiative from the Russian side,” he told national TV., and Zelenskiy said his forces there would receive more weapons than originally planned from the next western support package.
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