Recent reports indicate that Russian forces are making significant and relentless gains in the Kursk region, with Ukrainian troops retreating under heavy assault. Despite Ukraine's efforts to slow Russia's advances with an incursion in August,

Russia's state news agency says a British national has been captured while fighting alongside Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region of Russia, which is partially occupied by Ukrainian forces.

The Ukrainians] are authorized to use ATACMS for self-defense when there is an immediate necessity, and clearly, that is happening in and around Kursk,” Kirby said. “We have adjusted the guidelines and instructed them that they can use [ATACMS missiles] to strike these types of targets.

Ukraine's General Staff has reported that over 11,000 North Korean military personnel are stationed in Russia's Kursk Oblast and they have participated in combat against Ukraine's defence forces. Source: Radio Svoboda citing Anatolii Barhylevych,

In the Kursk region, just north of Ukraine, Russian attacks are so intense that infantry soldiers sometimes tread on the bodies of fallen comrades, Ukrainian military personnel report. "The battle for control of the Kursk region has reached a rarely seen intensity in two and a half years of war,

Moscow's soldiers have 'recently advanced' in the segment under Ukrainian control in Kursk, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Ukraine has lost over 40 per cent of the territory captured in Russia’s Kursk region as Russian forced mount waves of counter assaults.

Ukraine has lost more than 40 per cent of the territory it captured in August during a surprise invasion of Russia's Kursk region. This was reported by a senior source within the Ukrainian army to Reuters news agency.