“Everybody curses him”: resident of Kursk region who survived World War II spoke about Putin.

Ukrainian soldiers, acting in the Kursk region, met a local resident who survived the Holodomor and World War II, and now supports the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and despises the Russian authorities. A video of the conversation with this woman was published on the Telegram channel Khorne Group.

According to the information, the woman's name is Lidiia, she is 95 years old, and she was born in a Ukrainian village in the Sumy region, but spent most of her life in the village of Gogolevka, Kursk region. She spoke with Ukrainian soldiers in Ukrainian. While she remembers the horrors of World War II, she never imagined that Russia would carry out such a full-scale invasion.

"May Putin be cursed. He has planes and ships, but everyone curses and hates him"Granny Lida - a Ukrainian, 95 years old. She lives in the village of Gogolevka in Kursk region. In her childhood, she survived World War II, saw numerous Soviet army crimes... pic.twitter.com/9YWSkSbrOS

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Let us recall that this is not the first time that Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region meet residents who speak Ukrainian. Recently, fighters of the "Nachtigall" battalion met elderly women who engaged in dialogue with the soldiers and greeted them with "Glory to Ukraine".

The AFU fighters also showed a video of moving along the street of one of the Russian settlements, where one of the residents could be heard loudly shouting "Glory to Ukraine".

Today, Ukrainian troops continue to advance in the Kursk direction, moving a distance of 1 to 3 km. This was reported by Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskii during a video conference with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Syrskii emphasized that today 40 square kilometers of territory are already under control, and 74 settlements in the Kursk region are under the control of the AFU. Hostilities continue along the entire front line, and although the situation remains under control, its intensity is high.

It is also worth noting that about 500 men who refused to fight were forcibly taken from a military settlement near Petersburg to a training ground near Kursk. These people were given automatic rifles and are being prepared for deployment to the front, despite the health problems they are facing.