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An estimated 20,000 people need to be evacuated from areas across the border from Russia's Kursk region, Ukrainian police said on Friday. The statement comes as Moscow said it plans to deploy reinforcements to the region after Ukrainian forces advanced some 10 kilometres into Kursk this week, Ukraine's deepest incursion yet into Russian territory.