Days after Ukrainian troops seized part of Russia’s Kursk region in a surprise attack, President Vladimir Putin told defense officials their “main objective” was to repel the invasion. Six months later,

Moscow said Thursday that Ukraine's army had launched a fresh offensive in the Russian Kursk border region, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed Kyiv troops fighting on Russian soil.

Last year, the Ukrainian military said its forces had captured more than 700 Russian troops during operations in the Kursk region

Videos from the Ukrainian unit tasked with interacting with the Russians in Kursk give a unique window into the 6-month-old occupation.

Competing claims have emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region, that Ukraine has controlled for five months.View on euronews

The Ukrainian Air Force carried out a high-precision strike on the command post of a Russian army unit near the village of Novoivanovka in Russia's Kursk Oblast on Monday, 3 February. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook Details: The command post was located in an abandoned building and was used to coordinate Russian offensive operations against Ukrainian troops in the operational zone in Kursk Oblast.

The 52-year-old was on his way back to the frontlines and is believed to have died instantly along with another officer.

Ukraine has accused Russia of launching a deadly missile strike that killed at least four people in the dormitory of a boarding school in Kursk.Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that a Russian bomb destroyed the school building "even though dozens of civilians were there".