Kyiv: Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky denied Saturday his troops were encircled in Russia’s Kursk region, where Moscow has regained swathes of land this week, as Russia said it took back two more villages in the border region. US leader Donald Trump had a day earlier asked Russia’s Vladimir Putin on social media to spare the … Read more
Kyiv: Ukraine and Russia attacked each other with a barrage of drones on Saturday, with Moscow regaining more of its territory in the Kursk region, as international efforts to end the three-year war between the neighbours intensify. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he has “serious questions” over a US-proposed ceasefire in Ukraine while Donald … Read more
Moscow: Russia said Saturday it had retaken two more villages from Ukrainian forces in its Kursk border region where it has launched an offensive to wrest back seized territory. Moscow has pushed this week to retake a large part of the land that Ukraine originally captured in its western Kursk region. The Russian defence ministry … Read more
Moscow: President Vladimir Putin has visited the western Russian region of Kursk for the first time since Ukrainian forces seized some territory in the region, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday. Putin visited a control centre used by Russian forces and heard a report from Valery Gerasimov, head of the Russian General Staff, who told … Read more
Ukraine earlier claimed that it controlled almost 1,400 square kilometres. Kyiv: Ukraine conceded Thursday that it was holding barely a third of the territory in Russia’s western Kursk region that it initially captured during a shock offensive last year — land Kyiv hopes it can exchange with Russia. “Today we have our own security zone … Read more
Kyiv: Ukraine believes North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russia’s army on the Kursk front line have been “withdrawn” after suffering heavy losses, a military spokesman told AFP on Friday. Western, South Korean and Ukrainian intelligence agencies say Pyongyang deployed more than 10,000 troops to support Russia’s forces fighting in its western Kursk region, where Ukraine … Read more