{"id":3190,"date":"2025-02-28T12:08:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/russia-reportedly-attacking-sumy-oblast-border-military-hasnt-confirmed\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T12:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:08:45","slug":"russia-reportedly-attacking-sumy-oblast-border-military-hasnt-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/russia-reportedly-attacking-sumy-oblast-border-military-hasnt-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia reportedly attacking Sumy Oblast border; military hasn&#8217;t confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2167241364.jpg\" alt=\"Russia reportedly attacking Sumy Oblast border; military hasn't confirmed\"><\/p>\n<p>Russian infantry units are attempting to storm the Russia-Ukraine border in Sumy Oblast but are failing to achieve a breakthrough, claimed Andrii Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>The official&#8217;s comments come as the <a href=\"https:\/\/deepstatemap.live\/#12\/51.2353703\/35.1099014\">DeepState monitoring group<\/a> marked the Ukrainian border village of Novenke as a contested area, suggesting that Russian forces crossed the border into Sumy Oblast.<\/p>\n<p>The northeastern region borders Russia&#8217;s Kursk Oblast, where Ukrainian forces launched an incursion last summer to draw away Moscow&#8217;s troops from Donbas and disrupt Russian plans for an offensive from the north.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Currently, Russian forces are attempting to storm the border in infantry groups without vehicle columns,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/akovalenko1989\/8903\"> Kovalenko said on Telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has been no breakthrough at the moment; the fighting continues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Kyiv Independent could not verify the claims. Vadym Mysnyk, the spokesperson of the Operational Tactical Group Siversk, has declined to comment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.kyivindependent.com\/content\/images\/2025\/02\/image-1.webp\"><source type=\"image\/png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/image-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/image-1.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"Russia reportedly attacking Sumy Oblast border; military hasn't confirmed\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"793\" height=\"640\"><\/picture><figcaption>Novenke, Sumy Oblast. (DeepState\/OpenStreetMaps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ukraine launched a surprise cross-border <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/kursk-incursion-presents-kremlin-with-border-dilemma-isw\/\">incursion<\/a> into Kursk Oblast in August 2024. After six months of fighting in the region, Russian troops have <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russia-regains-control-of-64-of-seized-kursk-oblast-territories-russian-general-claims\/\">regained control of about 64%<\/a> of the territory in the region, the Russian military claimed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/nearly-40-000-russian-troops-lost-in-kursk-oblast-over-six-months-military-says\/\">Russian casualties<\/a> have reached nearly 40,000 in Kursk Oblast, including over 16,000 killed, Ukraine&#8217;s General Staff reported on Feb. 6. Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russia-has-suffered-20-800-casualties-in-kursk-oblast-syrskyi-claims\/\"> said last November<\/a> that the incursion thwarted Russia&#8217;s plans to invade Sumy Oblast in an attempt to create a &#8220;buffer zone&#8221; in the region.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/despite-negotiations-buzz-russias-war-is-likely-to-continue-says-military-analyst-rob-lee\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">\u2018As long as Russia is advancing, the war will continue\u2019\u2014 military analyst Rob Lee on what awaits Ukraine in 2025<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">As Ukraine entered its fourth year of Russia\u2019s full-scale war, it was geopolitics, not the war itself, that dominated headlines, as Kyiv\u2019s relationship with new U.S. President Donald Trump nosedived over a proposed minerals deal. In the meantime though, the battlefield continues to rage on multiple\u2026<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.kyivindependent.com\/content\/images\/size\/w256h256\/format\/png\/2023\/03\/K-new.svg\" alt=\"Russia reportedly attacking Sumy Oblast border; military hasn't confirmed\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">The Kyiv Independent<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Francis Farrell<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2199653261-2.jpg\" alt=\"Russia reportedly attacking Sumy Oblast border; military hasn't confirmed\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. The content was made available to us through the rss mechanism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russia-reportedly-attacking-sumy-oblast-border-military-hasnt-confirmed\/\">Original Content<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian infantry units are attempting to storm the Russia-Ukraine border in Sumy Oblast but are failing to achieve a breakthrough, claimed Andrii Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, on Feb. 28. 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