It had no Advance Notice of the military operation. Kyiv now claims to control more than 70 communities in the Kursk Region of western russia, an area of around 1,000 Square Kilometres. This map shows just how rapid the advance has been in the last seven days, with ukraine claiming to have taken more territory in a week than russia has all year. James waterhouse has our top story, from the front Line Province of sumy, bordering kursk. We are starting to learn more and more about this operation, which has been months in the planning. The Goalfor Ukraine was been months in the planning. The goal for ukraine was to target a weak part of the border, make their way through and draw russian forces from other parts of the front line. That is starting to happen, but russia is still advancing in eastern ukraine. Nevertheless, in a war which has become increasingly static in the last year and a half, ukraine has used the element of surprise to devastating effect. Ukrainian soldiers in western ma
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Hello. Welcome to bbc news in the uk and around the world. After months of uncertainty, and a build up marred by controversy and resignations, the delayed 2020 tokyo 0lympics are finally under way. Although the japanese capital is under a state of emergency because of covid, 0lympic officials still managed to pull off a thoughtful opening ceremony watched by millions globally. Lucy hockings is in tokyo there wasn t exactly a party like atmosphere in tokyo today, still a lot of fear and anxiety around the rising covid 19 infection rates is the city in the state of emergency or bars and restaurants are shutting at eight o clock and people are being told to stay home and stay safe because of the pandemic and because of these on games and the pandemic means there s been a lot of protests. Recent opinion polls say that over 55% of the japanese public didn t want these 0lympics that over 55% of the japanese public didn t want these olympics to happen and even of the olympics there has gone