Kursk theme
Has the TV company RAI managed to get the exclusivity of a report in which Ukraine takes the symbolic first sod for the construction of the wolf den?
Record number of Russian soldiers captured in Kursk. Not since World War II has another nation advanced across Russia's borders. And not since then have so many Russian soldiers been captured. "It is usually boys who were drafted into the army literally two months ago," says Ivan Chuviljayev, a representative from the anti-war movement Idite lesom.
Every day, Ivan's organization is contacted by relatives of conscripts who want help getting their sons and husbands home from Kursk. What few people know is that Russian law prohibits sending anyone to war who has served in the military service for less than four months or lacks military training. Watch the feature on SVT News.
Russia summons Italy's ambassador. The Russian Foreign Ministry has called a meeting with the Italian ambassador to Russia, after a group of journalists from the Italian state broadcaster RAI reported from the areas that Ukraine claims to control in Kursk, Reuters reports.
In a statement on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website, they write that "a strong protest was made to the ambassador".
The RAI was the first from international media to broadcast from Kursk and is said to have been escorted by the Ukrainian military. See the article on SVT Nyheter.