Military commandant’s office is being established in city, says president as discussions over prisoner exchanges restart
has claimed Kyiv’s troops have full control over the Russian town of Sudzha, which had a prewar population of 5,000 people and contains infrastructure pumping Russian gas towards Europe.
While some residents have remained, sheltering from the fighting in basements, most have been evacuated. “We hid in the bushes,” said Sudzha resident Tatyana Anikeyeva, speaking to Russian television from a facility helping evacuees. “Volunteers were handing out water, food, bread to people on the go. The sound of the cannonade continued without any break. The house was shaking.”
At the same time, Kursk’s acting regional governor Alexei Smirnov ordered the evacuation of Glushkovo region, 28 miles northwest of Sudzha, suggesting a fear that Ukraine’s advance would continue. More than 120,000 residents of the region have already been evacuated, according to local authorities. Also on Thursday, Ukraine’s SBU security services released a video it claimed featured dozens of Russian troops who had surrendered and had been taken prisoner. “We have a new replenishment of our ‘exchange fund’,” said Zelenskiy, commenting on the new prisoners of war. Thousands of Ukrainians remain in Russian captivity and Kyiv hopes to rejuvenate a stalled process of prisoner exchanges.
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