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Ukraine has been widely expelled from Kurakhove, a battered but strategic city in Donbas, Russia said. Kyiv’s forces urged a renewed offensive in southern Russia.
By Marc Santora
Kyiv reports, Ukraine
Five months after storming the border in Russia’s southern Kursk region, Ukrainian forces on Monday stepped up to drive deeper into Russia, even if they appear to have lost a strategic city 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 meaning in Ukrainian troops to advance in Kursk from the initial incursion in August. Since then, Russia has discovered part of the territory she has lost.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said Monday that their forces had taken from Kurakhove, a giant but damaged commercial city, approaching the struggles of the Ukrainian forces.
The Ukrainian Army Command in the East did not observe Russian confirmation that Kurakhove fell. Soldiers fighting in the region and a local Ukrainian army official stated when he reached for the phone that even if there was a resistance wallet in the factories on the outskirts, the city necessarily lost. He was asked on condition of anonymity to speak about sensitive army information.
In a statement, the Kremlin said that its defense minister Andrei Belosov had congratulated Russian infantry soldiers to capture the city on Monday,
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