Author: Ketrin Jochecová, Joshua Posaner, Nette Nöstlinger, Jan Cienski

Russia declared a state of emergency in the Kursk region late Wednesday as Ukrainian forces continued a cross-border attack there. “To eliminate the consequences of enemy forces coming into the region, I took the decision to introduce a state of emergency in the Kursk region from Aug. 7,” the acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, said in a post on Telegram Wednesday evening. The Russian military said clashes with Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region have been occurring since early Tuesday, in an incursion that Russian President Vladimir Putin called “a large-scale provocation.” Despite some international worries that…