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Ukraine caught Russia — as well as its Western allies — off guard on August 6 by launching a surprise attack on the Kursk border region, grabbing around 386 miles of territory in a matter of days.
A big Russian push in the northern region would stretch Ukraine's troops and open a new front in the war. In May, Kadyrov said during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that tens of ...
The US defence secretary also told Ukraine's military allies in Brussels that a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders - before Russia annexed Crimea - was "unrealistic" and that the US does not see ...
On 22 May 2023, armed groups from Ukraine carried out a cross-border raid [20] [21] into Belgorod Oblast, Russia. [22] [23] [24] Two Russian rebel groups allied with and based in Ukraine—the Freedom of Russia Legion (FRL) and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC)—claimed to have taken control of several border settlements, and clashed with Russian government forces.
The Russian military shelled Hlukhiv with rocket launchers on 8-9 May, damaging a Jewish cemetery. [8] [9]On 12 May, a civilian was killed due to the shelling. [1] On 13 May, Russia fired on a border village in the Shostka district using unguided air missiles.
The Makiivka surrender incident happened during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 in the village of Makiivka, Luhansk Oblast. Videos depicted what appeared to be at least ten Russian soldiers surrendering to four Ukrainian soldiers in Makiivka. [1] Russian soldiers exited an outhouse one by one and laid facedown on the ground. [1]
A swift Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region was the largest such cross-border raid by Kyiv’s forces in the nearly 2½-year war, exposing Russia’s vulnerabilities and dealing a ...
Russian forces continued to launch limited cross-border raids in Sumy oblast, with the oblast's Military Administration Head Volodymyr Artyukh reporting that the Russian forces weren't large enough to warrant a full incursion, while the ISW assessed that the raids are meant to distract Ukraine and draw resources from the front in Kharkiv. [11]