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Ukraine is sending reinforcements to support its forces in Russia’s Kursk region, the Ukrainian army’s top commander said Monday, coming as the Russian military claims to be speeding up the advance of its counteroffensive in the border region. “I made a decision to strengthen our grouping with the necessary forces and means, including electronic warfare…
Russia on Saturday said its troops had retaken three villages seized by Ukraine in the Kursk border region, where Kyiv’s forces have been losing ground recently. The Russian Defense Ministry announced the recapture of Viktorovka, Nikolayevka and Staraya Sorochina. Ukrainian soldiers launched an offensive in Kursk last summer but Russia has wrested back control of…
Thirty-three civilians from southwestern Russia’s Kursk region have returned home from Ukraine following negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv, presidential human rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said Monday. “Most of them are elderly, but there are also four children,” Moskalkova wrote on Telegram. “Many have serious injuries and illnesses.” She credited the International Committee of the Red Cross…
At least 25 Russian conscripts have died in the six months since Ukrainian forces launched a surprise cross-border incursion into Russia’s southwestern Kursk region, the investigative outlet Vyorstka reported Thursday. Many of the conscripts were killed within weeks of the August 2024 incursion, but their names only surfaced in media reports obituaries, and social media…
Authorities in Moscow and Kyiv are in discussions about opening a humanitarian corridor for civilians stranded behind Ukrainian lines in the partially occupied Kursk region, Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova said Tuesday. More than 1,500 Russian civilians are estimated to be still living in areas of the Kursk region that Ukraine’s army seized in…
Kyiv and Moscow traded blame on Sunday for a strike on a school in a Ukrainian-occupied town in Russia’s Kursk region, while Kyiv said weekend missile and drone attacks killed at least 15 people in Ukraine. Fighting in the nearly three-year war has shown no signs of de-escalating, despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s promise to…
Russia on Sunday said it had opened a criminal investigation into allegations that Ukrainian troops killed civilians in a Russian village that had been seized by Kyiv’s army. Ukraine has taken dozens of border settlements under its control in the western Russian Kursk region since launching a surprise offensive there last August and says around…
The acting governor of Russia’s partially occupied Kursk region has prohibited local officials from deleting online comments critical of their performance, state media reported Monday. “You can’t delete comments except those containing profanity and insults. If the comment is proper but unpleasant, you must respond to it,” Alexander Khinshtein was quoted as saying by the…
Ukraine said Tuesday its forces struck a Russian military “command post” in Russia’s Kursk region during “combat operations,” while backtracking on a claim it had launched a fresh offensive in the border area. Russia’s army said over the weekend that Kyiv was mounting a “counterattack” in the region, where Ukraine’s forces have held onto a…
Ukraine has made minor tactical advances since launching its renewed offensive in Russia’s Kursk region, reports said. Moscow said Sunday that Ukraine had mounted a “counterattack” in the Russian border region that Kyiv has partially controlled since it launched a shock incursion there last August. The U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War said that Ukrainian forces…
