Ukraine is engaged in Kursk region exclusively with tasks related to security, and is not interested in occupying these territories, adviser to the head of the President's Office of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak said.

"But it is interested in the actual destruction of many Russian military facilities, pushing the remnants of Russian troops beyond the lines that allow for artillery and ballistic missile strikes on Ukrainian territory, forming a security belt around Ukraine's borders, and destroying military logistics and infrastructure (including storage bases, training centers, and places where equipment is concentrated)," Podoliak wrote on the social network X on Thursday.

"Ukraine and Russia are waging different wars, which have clear legal definitions. While Russia deliberately attacked Ukraine to kill civilians and occupy its territory, which is an unconditional war crime, Ukraine is waging an exclusively defensive war, including on the aggressor's territory to ensure the protection of its own population, which is its unconditional right," he said.