{"id":278296,"date":"2025-01-06T09:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T07:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upmp.news\/?p=278296"},"modified":"2025-01-06T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T07:56:42","slug":"ukraine-launches-new-offensive-in-russia-s-kursk-region-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upmp.news\/en\/en-in-ukraine\/ukraine-launches-new-offensive-in-russia-s-kursk-region-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine launches new offensive in Russia’s Kursk region: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ukraine has launched a fresh offensive in Russia’s western Kursk region, an area where Moscow’s forces have been attempting to push back Kyiv’s troops since August last year, according to reports on Sunday. It is reported by Upmp.news with reference<\/a> to \u201cPolskie Radio\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrii Kovalenko, head of the Ukrainian Centre for Countering Disinformation, said that Ukrainian forces had launched surprise attacks against Russian forces in several locations across\u00a0the region, five months after\u00a0launching<\/a> their incursion there, US broadcaster\u00a0CNN<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/x.com\/cnni\/status\/1875913047367152094<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Ukrainian forces have maintained control over a portion of Russian territory, which could serve as a strategic bargaining chip in potential peace negotiations, according to the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/x.com\/PAPinformacje\/status\/1875920881396113558<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Russia’s defense ministry\u00a0said on Sunday that its forces were repelling Ukrainian advances, but some Russian military bloggers suggested that Russian troops were under significant pressure in the area, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/x.com\/Reuters\/status\/1875921462642565203<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Ukrainian presidential aide\u00a0Andriy Yermak<\/a>\u00a0said in a post\u00a0that there was “good\u00a0news” from the Kursk region, adding\u00a0that “Russia is getting what it deserves.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ukrainian and Western assessments say that some 11,000\u00a0troops from Russia’s ally North Korea have been deployed in the\u00a0Kursk region to support Moscow’s forces, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/x.com\/Ukrinform_News\/status\/1875803154073436233<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr\u00a0Zelensky\u00a0said on Saturday that the Russian army “lost up to a\u00a0battalion of North Korean infantry soldiers and Russian\u00a0paratroops” in battles over the weekend “near just one village.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/nexta_tv\/status\/1875867664767221952\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Russia invaded Ukraine by land, air and sea on February 24, 2022, starting the largest military conflict\u00a0in Europe since World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1875241675359957389<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday\u00a0is day\u00a01,046 of Russia\u2019s\u00a0war\u00a0on\u00a0Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1875844874018103687<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: IAR, PAP<\/a>, Reuters, CNN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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