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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 ...
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’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 ...
Russian forces have been steadily advancing in eastern Ukraine for months in an attack that has centred on the city of Pokrovsk, a linchpin of the wider Donetsk region’s defence. Ukraine’s ...
In Kursk itself, the Russians regained 593 sq km, and it was clear that Ukraine was losing its grip on this region. Miron warned that the entire eastern Ukrainian front would collapse if the advancement continued. [52]
The region was affected by Crimean–Nogai slave raids in the 16th and 17th centuries. The current southwestern outskirts of the oblast with the town of Sudzha were part of Sloboda Ukraine and populated by Ukrainians since the mid-17th century. [13] Between 1708 and 1719, Kursk was part of the newly created Kiev Governorate.
As Russian forces make slow progress in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine's military stages a surprise cross-border attack.
[62] On 19 March, Putin ordered the FSB to hunt down and "punish" Russians serving in the Ukrainian military and compared them to the Russian Liberation Army, a World War II-era Nazi collaborationist unit. [63] Schools in Kursk were ordered to shift to remote learning for the rest of the week, [64] [65] while a missile alert was declared in the ...