Moscow says the attack has been repelled, Kyiv doesn't comment on the developments, while Russian military bloggers say another surprise attack is on its way.
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00:00Six months into Ukraine's surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk region, Kyiv forces launched
00:09a new assault into the border area.
00:11According to the Institute for the Study of War, they have advanced up to five kilometers
00:16behind Russian lines, southeast of Sudzha.
00:20The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that Ukrainian forces attacked in several ways
00:24in the direction of Cherkasskoye, Konopelka and Ulanok, with up to two mechanized battalions
00:29worth of armored vehicles.
00:31Moscow insisted that Russian forces repelled the attack.
00:36Ukrainian authorities are not commenting on the latest advancements, but on Wednesday
00:39Volodymyr Zelensky remarked that Kyiv's operations in Kursk region might play an important part
00:45during future negotiations with Russia to end the war.
00:49Russia's President Vladimir Putin this week praised the elite formations defending in
00:54Kursk region, highlighting the fact that the Ukrainian incursion has pinned about
00:59a combined armed army worth of Russian troops in there since August 2024.