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President Volodymyr Zelensky has made his first comments on the advance of Ukrainian troops into the Russian border region of Kursk. “Russia brought the war to our land, and it should feel what it has done,” Zelensky said in his evening video message. He did not mention the fighting by Ukrainian soldiers on Russian territory in the Kursk area. “We strive to achieve our goals as soon as possible in peacetime – under just peace conditions. And it will happen,” he said in an English-language transcript of the address. The adviser to Zelensky’s office, Mykhailo Podolyak, pointed to the internation…

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