Russia-Ukraine War 

Russia-Ukraine War

Russia-Ukraine War

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Ukraine has largely been driven out of Kurakhove, a battered but strategic town in the Donbas, Russia said. Kyiv’s forces were pressing a renewed offensive in southern Russia.

By Marc Santora

Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine

Five months after storming the border in Russia’s southern Kursk region, Ukrainian forces were making a renewed push Monday to reach Russia, even as they appear to have lost a strategic city in eastern Ukraine.

While the scale of the renewed Ukrainian offensive in Kursk remains unclear, both Russian and Ukrainian officials reported heavy fighting on Sunday night. Combat footage geolocated by military analysts indicated that Ukraine was trying to break through Russian defenses in at least three directions.

This is the first meaning in Ukrainian troops to advance in Kursk from the initial incursion in August. Since then, Russia has discovered part of the territory she has lost.

At the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defense said Monday that their forces had taken from Kurakhove, a vital but damaged commercial city, reaching the struggles of the Ukrainian forces.

Ukraine’s army command in the east did not comment on the Russian claim that Kurakhove had fallen. The soldiers fighting in the domain and a local Ukrainian army official said when contacted by phone that although there was a resistance wallet in the factories on the outskirts, the city of the city, the city. necessarily lost. They asked on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military information.

In a statement, the Kremlin said its defense minister, Andrei Belousov, had congratulated the Russian soldiers for capturing the town on Monday,

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