Russia says its forces have retaken key Kursk town of Sudzha

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The Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday that its forces have recovered control of Sudha’s largest city in the Kursk region by Ukrainian forces for the past six months.

Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Olekesanindra Sirsky acknowledged the previous evening that the Ukrainian troops had returned from some parts of the Kusk region and Russian forces had entered Sudha, but said that the city was fighting on the outskirts.

Ukrainian President Vloadimire Jensky says the military command in the region “should do this that should be done – to save the lives of our soldiers as much as possible”.

The Russian offensive Kursk Science, supported by the North Korean army, has intensified in recent weeks, since the strike drone targeted the road towards Sudha that Ukraine re -supplied its forces.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a command post on Wednesday in Kurske, when he ordered the military to move Ukraine forces away from the region “in the shortest time”.

The first occupied by Ukrainian forces in August this region is to re -accept Moscow’s fast push, Russian and US officials came to gear up for another meeting WarThe

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday that the United States and Russia Kiev is expected to negotiate after the initial 30 -day ceasefire during a meeting with US officials in Saudi Arabia this week.

According to Flightroder 24, a plane registered near US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Steve Witcoof has landed in Moscow.

US National Protection Advisor Mike Waltz spoke to Russian President’s Foreign Policy Advisor Yuri Ushakov over the phone on Wednesday, Peskov said.

Russia says it will not accept Ukraine’s hostility that does not include its three -year aggression formal and final settlement, it is a position of discrimination with claiming US fast ceasefire. Peskov said that according to the interfax, it is very soon to say what will happen in Russia’s discussion.

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