Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have suggested that the lack of a coherent Russian response to the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk Oblast and the speed of the advance indicate that Ukrainian troops were able to achieve operational surp…
Editor’s Note: This is a developing story and is being updated. Strong explosions and fires were reported in the town of Rylsk in Kursk Oblast overnight on Aug. 9, Russian-affiliated Telegram channels reported. Residents allegedly heard four explosions…
Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian army, appears to have ignored intelligence warnings that Ukraine’s Armed Forces were gathering near the border of Kursk Oblast, Bloomberg reported on Aug. 8, citing a source close to the Kreml…
Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region is “consistent with our policy,” U.S. Defense Department Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told the press on Aug. 8.Responding to a question on the reports of the incursion, which began on Aug. 8, and w…
“Russia brought war to our land, and it should feel what it has done,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address on Aug 8, which avoided a direct mention of the ongoing fighting in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.Kyiv has so far maintained a polic…
Russian forces attacked a village in Sumy hromada on 8 August, injuring a local resident (A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.).
Source: Oleksii Drozdenko, Head of …
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Russia attacked a border village in Sumy Oblast on Aug. 8 with KAB bombs, killing a 22-year-…
Russian forces struck the village of Mohrytsia in the Sumy district with guided aerial bombs (GABs) on Thursday, 8 August, hitting a village school, claiming the lives of a 22-year-old man and a 6-year-old girl.
Source: Interfax-Ukraine news agency, ci…
The Russian Ministry of Defence has confirmed the advance of the Ukrainian military in two districts of Russia’s Kursk Oblast, adding that Russian reserves have been deployed along the border, bombarding the Ukrainian Armed Forces units from the air.&n…
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Prominent Russian propagandist and pro-Kremlin TV reporter Yevgeny Poddubny was severely inj…