The situation in the Kursk region has worsened lately. The Russian military, attempting to cut off the logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), has made advances toward the critical Sumy-Sudzha highway and to some extent has reduced the width of the Ukrainian forces’ bridgehead,

The repositioning could be a prelude to a complete Ukrainian withdrawal from Kursk back to the relative safety of northern Ukraine. Shrugging off at least one raid by a Ukrainian

Russia was storming the town of Sudzha on Sunday after special forces used a gas pipeline to surprise Ukrainian units as part of a major offensive to eject Ukrainian soldiers from the western Russian region of Kursk,