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On 3 September, Zelenskyy said in an interview that Ukraine is planning to "indefinitely" hold Kursk Oblast's seized territories, in an attempt to force Putin to the negotiating table. [6] By November 2024, Ukraine had lost control of more than 40% of the territory it initially occupied in the region. [7]
Ukraine captured a chunk of the Russian border region of Kursk after a daring cross-border attack in August. They have held onto some of that territory ever since, though advancing Russian forces ...
The settlement witnessed fighting in 2024 and in 2025 as part of the Kursk offensive of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [4] [5] In January 2025, Russian officials accused Ukrainian forces of torturing and later killing 22 civilians in the village [6] "Russian officials are accusing Ukrainian troops of killing civilians in the Kursk region, citing two videos of human remains.
Kofman's criticism of Ukraine's incursion into Kursk was shared by other analysts. Oleksandr Kovalenko, a military analyst at the Kyiv-based Information Resistance group, described the situation in Pokrovsk to be a complete defensive failure. [54] Roman Pohorilyi of Deep State said that the situation in the east is in complete chaos. [54]
Ukraine’s military say the hottest fighting along the roughly 640-mile frontline is taking place along multiple points in Donetsk ... Further north, in the Russian region of Kursk, around 10,000 ...
Kursk Oblast is bordered by Bryansk Oblast to the north-west (border length: 120 km (75 mi)), Oryol Oblast to the north (325 km (202 mi)), Lipetsk Oblast to the north-east (65 km (40 mi)), Voronezh Oblast to the east (145 km (90 mi)), Belgorod Oblast to the south (335 km (208 mi)), and Sumy Oblast of Ukraine to the west (245 km (152 mi)).
The Kursk workers also participated in the general political strike during the 1905 Russian Revolution. After the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, the Soviets took power in Kursk on 26 November (9 December – new style) 1917. On 28 November 1918, the Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine was established in Kursk. [23]
On August 6, 2024, fierce fighting broke out at the border of Kursk Oblast and around Sudzha as part of an incursion by Ukrainian forces. [18] [19] The Ukrainian government confirmed the capture of the town on August 15 and announced the formation of a military administration in the areas of Kursk Oblast occupied by Ukraine.