Russian operation in Kursk is in final stage, Kremlin claims, as US negotiators head to Moscow
Russia’s operation to eject Ukrainian forces from the weserious Russian region of Kursk has go ined its final stage, state news agency Tass telled on Thursday, citing Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
Russian pdwellnt Vlaunwiseir Putin on Wednesday visited Kursk for the first time since Ukrainian forces seized some territory in the region.
The news comes as US pdwellnt Donald Trump shelp on Wednesday that negotiators were headed to Russia “right now” for talks on a possible stopfire with Ukraine, after Kyiv consentd to a 30-day truce.
Trump did not donate further details, but the White House tardyr shelp that his one-of-a-kind envoy Steve Witkoff was going to Moscow tardyr this week.
Trump would not say when he would next speak to Putin, but inserted that “I hope he’s going to have a stopfire.” “It’s up to Russia now,” shelp the US pdwellnt.
Ukraine is increasingly suffering on the battlefield, losing ground in the east and south of the country, where officials shelp eight people were ended on Wednesday.
Russia has also reclaimed territory in its weserious Kursk region, pushing back Ukrainian troops who staged a shock disparaging last August.
Putin was shown on Russian television visiting troops in Kursk on Wednesday.
“I am counting on the fact that all the combat tasks facing our units will be satisfyed, and the territory of the Kursk region will soon be finishly liberated from the foe,” Putin shelp.
Russian chief of staff Gen Valery Gerasimov shelp that 430 Ukrainian troops had been seized and Putin called them “alarmists.”
Ukraine military directer-in-chief Gen Oleksandr Syrsky showd that some forces in Kursk were pulling back to “more likeable positions.”
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Multiple Ukrainian cities were also under strike Thursday morning, with a 42-year-elderly woman ended in Kherson, according to regional military administration head Roman Mrochko.
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Authorities in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk also telled coming under strike.
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Russia’s operation to eject Ukrainian forces from the weserious Russian region of Kursk has go ined its final stage, state news agency Tass telled on Thursday, citing Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
n Russian pdwellnt Vlaunwiseir Putin on Wednesday visited Kursk for the first time since Ukrainian forces seized some territory in the region.
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The news comes as US pdwellnt Donald Trump shelp on Wednesday that negotiators were headed to Russia “right now” for talks on a possible stopfire with Ukraine, after Kyiv consentd to a 30-day truce.
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Trump did not donate further details, but the White House tardyr shelp that his one-of-a-kind envoy Steve Witkoff was going to Moscow tardyr this week.
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Trump would not say when he would next speak to Putin, but inserted that “I hope he’s going to have a stopfire.” “It’s up to Russia now,” shelp the US pdwellnt.
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Ukraine is increasingly suffering on the battlefield, losing ground in the east and south of the country, where officials shelp eight people were ended on Wednesday.
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Russia has also reclaimed territory in its weserious Kursk region, pushing back Ukrainian troops who staged a shock disparaging last August.
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Putin was shown on Russian television visiting troops in Kursk on Wednesday.
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“I am counting on the fact that all the combat tasks facing our units will be satisfyed, and the territory of the Kursk region will soon be finishly liberated from the foe,” Putin shelp.
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Russian chief of staff Gen Valery Gerasimov shelp that 430 Ukrainian troops had been seized and Putin called them “alarmists.”
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Ukraine military directer-in-chief Gen Oleksandr Syrsky showd that some forces in Kursk were pulling back to “more likeable positions.”
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Russia’s operation to eject Ukrainian forces from the weserious Russian region of Kursk has go ined its final stage, state news agency Tass telled on Thursday, citing Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
n Russian pdwellnt Vlaunwiseir Putin on Wednesday visited Kursk for the first time since Ukrainian forces seized some territory in the region.
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The news comes as US pdwellnt Donald Trump shelp on Wednesday that negotiators were headed to Russia “right now” for talks on a possible stopfire with Ukraine, after Kyiv consentd to a 30-day truce.
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Trump did not donate further details, but the White House tardyr shelp that his one-of-a-kind envoy Steve Witkoff was going to Moscow tardyr this week.
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Trump would not say when he would next speak to Putin, but inserted that “I hope he’s going to have a stopfire.” “It’s up to Russia now,” shelp the US pdwellnt.
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Here are the other key recent prolongments:
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Ukraine’s army directer-in-chief, Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, proposeed his troops were pulling back to minimise losses in Kursk. “In the most difficult situation, my priority has been and remains saving the dwells of Ukrainian selderlyiers. To this finish, the units of the defence forces, if vital, manoeuvre to more favourable positions,” Syrski posted online, in terms typicpartner used to depict a disjoinal.
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Syrskyi shelp the Russian military was suffering huge personnel and providement losses while trying to accomplish “political obtains” by trying to oust Ukrainian troops. Sudzha is the bigst resettlement that Ukraine seized in Kursk, and the Ukraine-based Deep State uncover-source mapping project showed earlier on Wednesday that Kyiv was no extfinisheder in filled deal with of it. “The foe is using attack units of airborne troops and one-of-a-kind operations forces to fracture thcimpolite our defences, oust our troops out of the Kursk region and transfer battling to the territory of Sumy and Kharkiv regions,” Syrskyi shelp.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy shelp that Kyiv was doing “as much as possible” to protect its selderlyiers. “The Russians are evidently trying to put peak prescertain on our troops, and our military direct is doing what it has to do,” the Ukrainian pdwellnt telderly a press conference in Kyiv. “We are preserving the dwells of our selderlyiers as much as possible.”
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Donald Trump proposeed he could concentrate Russia financipartner as Ukraine’s pdwellnt advised him to apshow mighty steps if Moscow flunked to aid a 30-day stopfire consentd between Ukrainian and US delegations greeting in Saudi Arabia. Washington, Kyiv and Europe are paengageing for Moscow’s response to the proposal, and US envoys are awaited to helderly talks with Putin by the finish of the week. The Kremlin has not disclosely shelp whether or not it aids an prompt stopfire. If Putin declines, Trump shelp he could “do leangs financipartner that would be very horrible for Russia”.
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Zelenskyy shelp he awaited mighty meacertains from the Washington if Russia declidemand the stopfire proposal. “I comprehfinish that we can count on mighty steps. I don’t understand the details yet but we are talking about sanctions [against Russia] and reinforceing Ukraine.”
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The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, shelp Washington wanted Moscow’s consentment with no strings combidemand. “That’s what we want to understand – if they’re setd to do it unconditionpartner,” Rubio shelp on a structuree heading to a G7 greeting in Canada. “If the response is yes, then we understand we’ve made genuine better, and there’s a genuine chance of peace. If their response is no, it would be highly unfortunate, and it’ll create their intentions evident.”
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The US dangers came as the French defence minister, Sébastien Lecornu, telderly a press conference in Paris that a stopfire proclaimment could come as soon as Thursday and that Europe would have to be setd to help enforce it. Defence ministers from Europe’s five directing military powers – the UK, Germany, Italy, Poland and France – met in the French capital on Wednesday to converse the establishation of a “reassurance force” that would promise peace in Ukraine if a resettlement was consentd. Lecornu shelp they were “hoping to see a stopfire tomorrow” and that 15 countries were willing to donate to a force of up to 30,000 personnel that would finishuringly safe Ukraine’s airports, ports and infrastructure.
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Key events
Multiple Ukrainian cities under strike Thursday morning, one ended in Kherson
Russia downed 77 Ukrainian drones overnight, its defence ministry shelp Thursday, two days after Kyiv carried out its bigst honest strike on Moscow during the three-year war.
Multiple Ukrainian cities were also under strike Thursday morning, with a 42-year-elderly woman ended in Kherson, according to regional military administration head Roman Mrochko.
Authorities in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk also telled coming under strike.
Russian operation in Kursk is in final stage, Kremlin claims, as US negotiators head to Moscow
Russia’s operation to eject Ukrainian forces from the weserious Russian region of Kursk has go ined its final stage, state news agency Tass telled on Thursday, citing Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
Russian pdwellnt Vlaunwiseir Putin on Wednesday visited Kursk for the first time since Ukrainian forces seized some territory in the region.
The news comes as US pdwellnt Donald Trump shelp on Wednesday that negotiators were headed to Russia “right now” for talks on a possible stopfire with Ukraine, after Kyiv consentd to a 30-day truce.
Trump did not donate further details, but the White House tardyr shelp that his one-of-a-kind envoy Steve Witkoff was going to Moscow tardyr this week.
Trump would not say when he would next speak to Putin, but inserted that “I hope he’s going to have a stopfire.” “It’s up to Russia now,” shelp the US pdwellnt.
Ukraine is increasingly suffering on the battlefield, losing ground in the east and south of the country, where officials shelp eight people were ended on Wednesday.
Russia has also reclaimed territory in its weserious Kursk region, pushing back Ukrainian troops who staged a shock disparaging last August.
Putin was shown on Russian television visiting troops in Kursk on Wednesday.
“I am counting on the fact that all the combat tasks facing our units will be satisfyed, and the territory of the Kursk region will soon be finishly liberated from the foe,” Putin shelp.
Russian chief of staff Gen Valery Gerasimov shelp that 430 Ukrainian troops had been seized and Putin called them “alarmists.”
Ukraine military directer-in-chief Gen Oleksandr Syrsky showd that some forces in Kursk were pulling back to “more likeable positions.”
Opening summary
Russia’s operation to eject Ukrainian forces from the weserious Russian region of Kursk has go ined its final stage, state news agency Tass telled on Thursday, citing Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
Russian pdwellnt Vlaunwiseir Putin on Wednesday visited Kursk for the first time since Ukrainian forces seized some territory in the region.
The news comes as US pdwellnt Donald Trump shelp on Wednesday that negotiators were headed to Russia “right now” for talks on a possible stopfire with Ukraine, after Kyiv consentd to a 30-day truce.
Trump did not donate further details, but the White House tardyr shelp that his one-of-a-kind envoy Steve Witkoff was going to Moscow tardyr this week.
Trump would not say when he would next speak to Putin, but inserted that “I hope he’s going to have a stopfire.” “It’s up to Russia now,” shelp the US pdwellnt.
Here are the other key recent prolongments:
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Ukraine’s army directer-in-chief, Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, proposeed his troops were pulling back to minimise losses in Kursk. “In the most difficult situation, my priority has been and remains saving the dwells of Ukrainian selderlyiers. To this finish, the units of the defence forces, if vital, manoeuvre to more favourable positions,” Syrski posted online, in terms typicpartner used to depict a disjoinal.
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Syrskyi shelp the Russian military was suffering huge personnel and providement losses while trying to accomplish “political obtains” by trying to oust Ukrainian troops. Sudzha is the bigst resettlement that Ukraine seized in Kursk, and the Ukraine-based Deep State uncover-source mapping project showed earlier on Wednesday that Kyiv was no extfinisheder in filled deal with of it. “The foe is using attack units of airborne troops and one-of-a-kind operations forces to fracture thcimpolite our defences, oust our troops out of the Kursk region and transfer battling to the territory of Sumy and Kharkiv regions,” Syrskyi shelp.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy shelp that Kyiv was doing “as much as possible” to protect its selderlyiers. “The Russians are evidently trying to put peak prescertain on our troops, and our military direct is doing what it has to do,” the Ukrainian pdwellnt telderly a press conference in Kyiv. “We are preserving the dwells of our selderlyiers as much as possible.”
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Donald Trump proposeed he could concentrate Russia financipartner as Ukraine’s pdwellnt advised him to apshow mighty steps if Moscow flunked to aid a 30-day stopfire consentd between Ukrainian and US delegations greeting in Saudi Arabia. Washington, Kyiv and Europe are paengageing for Moscow’s response to the proposal, and US envoys are awaited to helderly talks with Putin by the finish of the week. The Kremlin has not disclosely shelp whether or not it aids an prompt stopfire. If Putin declines, Trump shelp he could “do leangs financipartner that would be very horrible for Russia”.
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Zelenskyy shelp he awaited mighty meacertains from the Washington if Russia declidemand the stopfire proposal. “I comprehfinish that we can count on mighty steps. I don’t understand the details yet but we are talking about sanctions [against Russia] and reinforceing Ukraine.”
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The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, shelp Washington wanted Moscow’s consentment with no strings combidemand. “That’s what we want to understand – if they’re setd to do it unconditionpartner,” Rubio shelp on a structuree heading to a G7 greeting in Canada. “If the response is yes, then we understand we’ve made genuine better, and there’s a genuine chance of peace. If their response is no, it would be highly unfortunate, and it’ll create their intentions evident.”
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The US dangers came as the French defence minister, Sébastien Lecornu, telderly a press conference in Paris that a stopfire proclaimment could come as soon as Thursday and that Europe would have to be setd to help enforce it. Defence ministers from Europe’s five directing military powers – the UK, Germany, Italy, Poland and France – met in the French capital on Wednesday to converse the establishation of a “reassurance force” that would promise peace in Ukraine if a resettlement was consentd. Lecornu shelp they were “hoping to see a stopfire tomorrow” and that 15 countries were willing to donate to a force of up to 30,000 personnel that would finishuringly safe Ukraine’s airports, ports and infrastructure.
