Russia wants to push Ukrainian forces out of the Kursk region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding back 64,000 Russian soldiers there, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a briefing on ...

In the morning briefing, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that 23 combat clashes took place in the Kursk region over the past day. At the same time, the enemy launched 25 ...

A Ukrainian drone controlled via fiber optic cable. Russian drones using this technology seem to have been a key element of Russia's operation in Kursk Russia’s sudden success in Kursk was ...

Kursk is an area of western Russia that borders the Sumy region of Ukraine. It had long been that Russia might try opening a new front there in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began in ...

Russia has amassed about 50,000 troops along Ukraine's Sumy Oblast, three times the size of Kyiv's forces in the key region — with Moscow preparing its latest push along the frontlines that have ...

A version of this article appears in print on March 17, 2025, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Russia Forces Ukraine Out of Kursk Territory Once Seen as Leverage.