Moscow has intensified its attacks on Ukrainian forces battling to hold an enclave in Russia's Kursk region and increased pressure in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine's top army commander said on Tuesday.

Reclaiming Kursk is high on Moscow's agenda but comments by Valery Gerasimov failed to address the continuing presence of Ukrainian troops on Russian soil.

“They are performing quite well,” Ukrainian war correspondent Andrii Tsaplienko said of the 47th Mechanized Brigade’s dozen or so surviving Abrams. Ukrainian crews have praised the M-1’s thick protection and accurate fire controls.

Six people were killed and ten more were hospitalized in the Friday strike, Kursk acting Governor Alexander Khinshtein said.

Vladimir Putin says his forces will regain full control of the western Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops launched an offensive last summer. But the Russian president, who held an annual press briefing in Moscow on Thursday,

The assessment of drone vulnerability differs from an on-the-ground testimony obtained by the Kyiv Independent, in which a Special Forces serviceman disclosed how North Korean troops were well-protected by Russia’s electronic warfare,

It was at the start of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ military operation in Kursk Oblast. I believe the Kursk operation provided strong arguments in favor of Ukraine,” Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said.

Russia and Ukraine accused each other of launching deadly missile strikes, with Russian officials saying at least six were killed by a missile strike on its Kursk border region after a dawn attack on Ukraine's capital killed one man.

Russia initiated a prisoner-of-war exchange for the first time ever amid Ukraine's military campaign in Kursk Oblast. Source: Dmytro Lubinets, Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, in an interview with Quote: "In 2022-2023 and the first half of 2024,

MOSCOW - Russia's Investigative Committee said on Friday that people had been killed and wounded in a Ukrainian missile attack on the town of Rylsk in Russia's Kursk region. Read more at straitstimes.

North Korean soldiers have seized their first village from Ukrainian troops in Russia's Kursk region, according to reports.