Days after Ukrainian troops seized part of Russia’s Kursk region in a surprise attack, President Vladimir Putin told defense officials their “main objective” was to repel the invasion. Six months later,

Moscow said Thursday that Ukraine's army had launched a fresh offensive in the Russian Kursk border region, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed Kyiv troops fighting on Russian soil.

Last year, the Ukrainian military said its forces had captured more than 700 Russian troops during operations in the Kursk region

Competing claims have emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region that has been under Ukrainian control for five months.

The General Staff of Ukraine reported that Kyiv's operation in the Kursk region has been ongoing for six months. Russia has lost nearly 40,000 soldiers there during this period. Over 16,000 have been killed,

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that its forces repelled a Ukrainian assault on two villages in the partially occupied Kursk region in southwestern Russia. The battlefield report follows claims by pro-war military bloggers that Ukrainian troops launched an early morning offensive on the villages of Ulanok and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye,