The Latest Breaking News from Kursk

Footage showed thick black smoke billowing above the Volgograd airfield after the strike on Thursday

Russia claims CNN journalist Nick Paton Walsh illegally entered Russia to document Kursk incursion

Saturday’s anniversary of split from Soviet Union comes as Ukraine bids to broaden the war with an offensive inside the Russian region of Kursk

Ukrainian soldiers face challenges in Kursk region incursion due to inexperienced recruits and Russian superiority. Efforts to train and equip new fighters...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday visited the Sumy region close to the Russian frontier, near where Ukrainian forces launched their cross-border Kursk offensive. The Ukrainian leader said that Russian soldiers captured during the incursion would help build an “exchange fund” to swap for Ukrainian prisoners. Meanwhile, Russia kept on…

EU’s top diplomat says long-range weapons would boost Ukrainian self defence; Scholz says Kursk operation was secretive by necessity. What we know on day 911

Ukraine’s surprise attack on the Kursk region in Russia has allowed the country’s forces to take hundreds of enemy prisoners, who Kyiv hopes to exchange for Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) held in Russia. Our special correspondent was able to speak with several of these Russian POWs in the prison…

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The attack comes as Ukrainian forces continue to push into Russia’s western Kursk region