Kursk is a powerful symbol. In 1943, the Kursk battle turned the tide of World War II and put the Soviet forces on their way to victory. The 2024 battle may also prove to be significant.

Moscow’s troops have retaken a few villages in a border area that Kyiv’s forces invaded last month and are also advancing steadily in eastern Ukraine. By Constant Méheut and Haley Willis ...

The village is 20 miles west of the main Ukrainian salient in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Six weeks ago, a powerful Ukrainian force—around a dozen battalions from eight or so experienced brigades ...

Russia ordered the evacuation of villages close to the Ukrainian border in the Kursk region on Monday, as Moscow ramped up efforts to regain control of land seized in Kyiv's incursion. The reason ...

Ukraine's cross-border push into Russia's Kursk region is a "success," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, as Moscow insists its counteroffensive to rip back settlements from Kyiv's ...

The surprise Ukrainian operation, essentially a smaller-scale repeat of the Aug. 6 Ukrainian invasion of Kursk, met with much greater success than the initial evidence—a few short drone videos ...

KYIV, Sept 13 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday Ukraine's incursion into Russia's border region of Kursk had produced the desired result of slowing Moscow's advance on ...

Over a month into Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region, Ukrainian soldiers told CNN the situation there was getting tougher, with casualty rates similar to those seen in parts of the ...

Kyiv launched its surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region last month, taking Moscow by surprise and quickly advancing some 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the border. But the campaign slowed ...

Russia has launched a major counterattack in its Kursk border region ... driving back the first invasion of Russian land since World War II. The Kremlin’s focus instead appears to have remained ...

“The Russians have begun counter-offensive actions” in Kursk Oblast, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday. Although information about Russia’s progress remains fragmentary, ...