### [2024-08-14](/feed/2024/08/14/index.md)

##### Russian invasion
# Ukraine announces that it will create a strategic buffer zone on the Russia–Ukraine border that is "designed to protect our border communities from daily enemy attacks". 




### Sources:

1. [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-keeps-pounding-kursk-incursion-biden-calls-real-dilemma-putin-2024-08-14/)

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