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The rise and fall of Ukraine's Kursk gambit
As Ukraine's seven-month-long incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast came to what appears to be its end, Ukrainian soldiers and ...
Ukraine caught Russia off-guard in its August counter-invasion last year, and succeeded in leveraging a single division of 11 ...
By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from all but a sliver of land in Russia’s Kursk region, according to military analysts and soldiers, as their monthslong campaign to occupy ...
Two weeks later on Monday or Tuesday, the Ukrainian force—10,000 troops in multiple heavy brigades—slipped out of Kursk. Starving for supplies and in danger of being cut off, the retreating ...
Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.
24 settlements liberated in Kursk Region over last five days — Russian General Staff "During five days alone, the Kursk Battlegroup retook 24 settlements and 259 square kilometers of the ...
SUMY OBLAST, Ukraine — Ukraine’s seven-month-old sortie into the Russian province of Kursk is on the verge of ... from the rear — and cut that part off.” The same night, Russia launched ...
according to Ukrainian estimates — to seal off the Ukrainian penetration is overloading rail stations in the Kursk area and creating shortages of locomotives. BelZhD, the union representing ...
Kursk was invaded last August ... The last time Russian troops are known to have pulled off such a feat occurred more than a year ago, during the battle for the Donetsk region city of Avdiyivka ...
Russian forces have been steadily retaking territory in the Kursk region, the area of Russia that Ukraine attacked in 2024. It comes as the US tries to get Russia to agree to a ceasefire in the ...
The 10,000-strong Ukrainian garrison in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast is in trouble. Relentless strikes by an elite Russian drone group have destroyed hundreds of vehicles along the main road ...
Moscow’s decisive offensive in Kursk Region is entering its final stage ... Encircle the enemy on three sides, cut off supply routes, and force their collapse through attrition.