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The UK’s Ministry of Defence said Russian forces were initially disorganised following Ukraine’s lightning offensive

The Russian army closed in on the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk on Friday, a key logistics hub through which supplies are transported to troops and towns on the eastern front, while Kyiv urged civilians living there to speed up evacuations. In the meantime, Ukraine said its forces have continued…

The longer the incursion lasts, the harder it is for Russia’s president to brush it off as a hiccup in a successful war

For more than a week, Ukrainian troops have pushed into into the Kursk region of Russia, just north of their border, in the most extensive incursion by Kyiv’s forces in the 2½-year-old war

Kyiv says it has also launched a major drone attack on four Russian airbases and shot down an enemy jet

On Aug. 6, 2024, Ukrainian soldiers crossed the border into Kursk province, marking the first invasion of foreign troops into Russian territory since World War II. In the days since, Russian television viewers and social media users have been confronted with images of burned-out houses and captured Russian soldiers.

Russia’s Belgorod border region has declared an emergency under heavy shelling by Ukrainian forces that are pressing a major cross-border incursion into the adjacent Kursk region for a second week

Pro-Kremlin commentators say the cross-border attack was developed by NATO as Putin threatens a ‘worthy response’.

Ukraine’s cross-border operation is the largest attack on Russia since World War II