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Ukraine has largely been driven out of Kurakhove, a battered but strategic city in the Donbas, Russia said. Kyiv’s forces were urgent for a renewed offensive in southern Russia.
By Marc Santora
Kyiv reports, Ukraine
Five months after storming across the border into the Kursk region of southern Russia, Ukrainian forces were making a renewed push on Monday to drive deeper into Russia, even as they appear to have lost a strategic town in eastern Ukraine.
While the scale of the renewed Ukrainian offensive in Kursk remains unclear, both Russian and Ukrainian officials reported heavy fighting on Sunday night. Combat footage geolocated by military analysts indicated that Ukraine was trying to break through Russian defenses in at least three directions.
This is the first significance in Ukrainian troops to advance on Kursk since the initial incursion in August. Russia has since discovered some of the territory it has lost.
At the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defense said Monday that their forces had taken from Kurakhove, a vital but damaged commercial city, reaching the struggles of the Ukrainian forces.
The Ukrainian army command in the East did not observe the Russian confirmation that Kurakhove fell. The soldiers fighting in the region and a local Ukrainian army official declared when he reached the phone that, even if there was a resistance wallet in the factories on the outskirts, the city necessarily lost. They asked the anonymity to talk about information from the delicate army.
In a statement, the Kremlin said its Defense Minister Andrei Belosov had congratulated Russian infantrymen for capturing the city on Monday.
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