Key developments on Feb. 7: North Korean soldiers “brought in again” to fight in Kursk Oblast, Zelensky says Ukraine downs Russian guided bomb near Zaporizhzhia, Air Force says Kyiv denies reports of alleged failed Russian Oreshnik missile launch at Ukraine Trump ready to step up Russia sanctions to end war in Ukraine, special envoy says […]
North Korean soldiers were “brought in again” by Russia to the embattled Kursk Oblast, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address on Feb. 7. Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi briefed Zelensky about new Russian attacks in Kursk Oblast, a day after Russian media claimed Ukraine had launched a new offensive in the Russian region. “A significant […]
Over six months of fighting in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, Russian losses have reached nearly 40,000 personnel, with over 16,000 killed, Ukraine’s General Staff reported on Feb. 6. Ukrainian forces have also reportedly captured 909 Russian soldiers during the operation, bolstering Kyiv’s exchange fund and enabling the return of hundreds of Ukrainian defenders held in Russian […]
Ukrainian forces’ operation in Russia’s Kursk Oblast may become an “important part” of the negotiation process to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Feb. 5 after a meeting with British Foreign Minister David Lammy in Kyiv, Ukrinform reported. Zelensky previously concurred that Kyiv would seek an end to the war this […]
Key developments on Feb. 4: Nearly 8,000 North Korean soldiers still fighting in Kursk Oblast, Budanov says Ukraine’s strike on Russian command center in Kursk Oblast causes ‘significant losses,’ General Staff says At least 5 killed, 55 injured in Russian missile strike on Izium in Kharkiv Oblast Russia records 20,000 claims to declare people dead […]
Editor’s note: This is a developing story and is being updated. A Russian missile attack against the town of Izium in Kharkiv Oblast on Feb. 4 killed at least five people and injured at least 38, Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported. Seven people remain hospitalized, including a 15-year-old girl who suffered shrapnel wounds. She is in […]
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Feb. 3 that it had prevented a sabotage attempt on a railway in Rivne Oblast, arresting a 23-year-old man allegedly working for Russian intelligence services. “The man, on the instructions of the Russian intelligence services, came to the city of Sarny to blow up the railway tracks […]
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief and current ambassador to the U.K., proposed an incursion into Russia’s Belgorod Oblast in 2022 to protect Kharkiv Oblast, General Viktor Nazarov told the BBC on Feb. 2. The plan was similar to Ukraine’s cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, in August 2024, launched in part in a bid to […]
President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russia’s alleged bombing of a nursing home in Kursk Oblast, comparing the attack to Russian warfare in Chechnya, Syria, and Ukraine. The presidents comments come after the Ukrainian military reported a Russian airstrike on a residential facility in the Ukrainian-occupied town of Sudzha in Kursk Oblast on Feb. 1. The attack […]
Key developments on Jan. 31: North Korean troops not seen for 3 weeks in parts of Kursk Oblast, Ukraine’s Special Forces say Ukraine deploys long-range drone capable of 2,000 km strike, military says Ukrainian drones strike “one of 10 largest oil refineries in Russia,” military says Russian missiles strike Odesa’s historic center, injuring 2 Finland […]
North Korean troops have not been seen for roughly three weeks in the areas of Kursk Oblast where Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) are fighting, the unit’s spokesperson, Colonel Oleksandr Kindratenko, told the Kyiv Independent on Jan. 31. The comment comes as undisclosed Ukrainian and U.S. officials told The New York Times that North Korean […]
North Korean soldiers temporarily withdrew from the contact line in Russia’s Kursk Oblast after incurring heavy losses, Sky News reported on Jan. 27, citing a Ukrainian commander with a callsign “Puls” who is fighting in the area. North Korean troops were deployed to Kursk Oblast last fall to support Russian forces in countering a Ukrainian […]