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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, Ukraine Reports
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.
At the same time, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday that its forces had taken Kurakhove, a vital but damaged commercial city, reaching out to the fighting of Ukrainian forces.
The Ukrainian military command in the east did not comment on the Russian claim that Kurakhove had fallen. Soldiers fighting in the area, and a local Ukrainian military official, said when reached by phone that while there were pockets of resistance in the factories on the outskirts, the town was essentially lost. They requested anonymity to discuss sensitive military information.
In a statement, the Kremlin said its Defense Minister Andrei Belosov congratulated Russian infantrymen for capturing the city on Monday.
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