By Erin Banco NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk have lost ground in recent days but are not encircled by Russian forces, contrary to recent comments by U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to three U.S. and European officials familiar with their governments’ intelligence assessments. U.S. intelligence agencies, including…
Wrecked Russian vehicles in Kursk. Via Kriegsforscher “AT THIS VERY MOMENT, THOUSANDS OF UKRAINIAN TROOPS ARE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY THE RUSSIAN MILITARY, AND IN A VERY BAD AND VULNERABLE POSITION,” U.S. President Donald Trump wrote in all caps on social media on Friday. Trump’s rant is a clear reference to the Monday or Tuesday evacuation…
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian forces advanced further in Kursk region on Monday as part of a major encirclement operation aimed at forcing thousands of Ukrainian soldiers to either flee or surrender in western Russia, pro-Russian war bloggers said. Ukrainian troops seized about 1,300 square km (500 square miles) of Russia’s Kursk region in August in what…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on China to exert influence on North Korea in response to the deployment of North Korean soldiers alongside Russian troops in the Ukraine war. “The Korean nation should not lose its people in the battles in Europe. And this can be influenced, particularly by Korea’s neighbours, especially China,” Zelensky…
(Reuters) – Two Ukrainian missiles and 27 drones were destroyed over Russia’s Kursk region, the governor of the region that borders Ukraine said on Sunday. It was not immediately clear what missiles were destroyed. Kursk regional governor Alexei Smirnov did not provide further details in a post on his Telegram channel. The Ukrainian military later…
A tank from the Russian 810th Naval Infantry Brigade. Russian state media capture As many as 8,000 North Korean troops have deployed to Kursk Oblast in western Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday. U.S. intelligence indicates the North Koreans will join the fighting along the 270-square-mile salient that Ukrainian forces carved out…
Over the last month, North Korea’s role aiding Russia in its war in Ukraine has significantly escalated. U.S. officials reported that North Korean soldiers are already operating in the Kursk region in western Russia, where Ukrainian forces are staging a counteroffensive. Michael Shear, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, explains what the…
The U.S. has said North Korean troops may have been deployed to a key front in Russia’s war against Ukraine, as speculation grows over how the international community may respond to a third party entering combat. The U.S. confirmed on October 23 that Pyongyang was joining Russia’s war against Ukraine, a claim made days earlier…
Vladimir Putin’s troops have stepped up their counterattacks against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region where they have made advances into Kyiv’s salient, it has been reported, as a map shows the latest state of play in the area. Kyiv had said that it has captured at least 500 square miles of territory in the…
Rybar, a Russian military Telegram channel, said that Russian forces were producing tangible results in several sectors. A video posted on Russian Telegram channels under the title “Announcement from the 155th Guards Brigade of the Pacific Fleet” showed badly injured Ukrainian soldiers with blood running down their faces tied to chairs in what appears to…