President Vladimir Zelensky said that at the moment there are 60 thousand Russian military personnel in the Kursk direction. The head of state spoke about this in an interview with the Italian TV channel RaiNews24. . . We don't need their territory, we don't need their lands, we don't need their people. We just want to live peacefully at home without war. This is the only thing we need. And this is why these corresponding steps took place,” Zelensky noted.. . . Today there are more than a million people in Kharkov. If Putin occupies them, hundreds of thousands of people will die. Therefore, we had to take the first steps, we saw a large number of their accumulated troops to occupy Sumy, we took the first step before they. And this helped us a lot,” the head of state emphasized.. . For this, the president added, Russia had to transfer many troops from Kharkov to Kursk and the Defense Forces managed to stop the enemy in the Kharkov region. . Head of the Presidential Office Andrei Ermak confirmed the intensification of hostilities in the Kursk region of Russia. Subsequently, the Russian Ministry of Defense recognized the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region. . Subscribe to our channels https://t. me/korrespondentnet and WhatsApp Author: 1.