because Russia had been planning to launch a new attack on Ukraine from the region. It said it was aiming to create a “buffer zone” to prevent future cross-border attacks. The Kursk offensive ...
Still, Russia has taken back 46% of what Ukraine once held in Kursk, the US-based Institute for the Study of War said in an update earlier this month, citing visual evidence. A harder fight for ...
Russia is suffering nearly 2,000 casualties a day trying to recapture the Kursk region and seize ground along the main front line in eastern Ukraine, according to Kyiv’s military. The figure is ...