A rapid Russian advance in recent days left remaining Ukrainian forces increasingly isolated under withering assaults, and they had pulled out from all but a sliver of Kursk provi ...

SUMY OBLAST, Ukraine — Ukraine’s seven-month-old sortie into the Russian province of Kursk is on the verge of collapse after Moscow’s troops broke through Kyiv’s defensive line near the ...

On Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine accused President Vladimir V. Putin of trying to surround Kyiv’s forces in the Kursk region to improve Russia’s position in cease-fire ...

The Russian Defense Ministry on Saturday also claimed that its troops had taken a village in Ukraine’s Sumy region, across the border from Kursk. Zelenskyy earlier named the province as one of ...

Ukraine’s presence in Russia’s Kursk region has deteriorated sharply, with the Russian advance threatening Kyiv’s sole territorial bargaining counter at a crucial time in the war.

Ukrainian forces in the Kursk bridgehead, an area of Russia that Ukraine seized last August, were becoming trapped. Aided by North Korean forces, Russia had tightened a noose around the Ukrainians ...

The prizes included some of the best vehicles and artillery belonging to some of Ukraine’s best brigades. A captured M-1 Abrams in Kursk. Under former President Joe Biden, the United States ...

Ukrainian intelligence officers in the neighbouring province of Sumy believed that ... main supply lines into Ukrainian held areas of Kursk. Ukraine tried to disrupt Russian plans to retake ...

Strategists in Kiev had hoped that the Kursk invasion would force Russia to divert significant forces away from the eastern front and provide Ukraine with a bargaining chip in future negotiations.