Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk

The Russian army has lost over 38,000 troops and more than 1,000 pieces of equipment since the beginning of Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast, Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Jan.

Four months after racing to Kursk Oblast in western Russia to meet the surprise Ukrainian invasion of that border region, the Russian navy’s battered 810th Naval Infantry Brigade is finally calling it quits—at least for a little while.

Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrainian troops are bloodied by daily combat losses and demoralized by the rising risk of defeat in Kursk.

Soldiers of the 6th Regiment of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have captured a village in Russia's Kursk Oblast. Source: press service for the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces;

Ukraine's New Year's Day tally of Russian losses, which includes those killed and wounded, showed that over the last 12 months Russia lost 430,790 troops. This is a big jump from the estimated quarter of million casualties Kyiv said Russia faced in 2023. Newsweek has contacted the Russian defense ministry for comment.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Russian and North Korean forces suffered heavy losses in fighting in Russia's southern Kursk region. "In battles yesterday and today near just one village,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that Russian and North Korean forces suffered heavy losses in fighting in Russia's southern Kursk region. Ukrainian and Western assessments say that some 11,

Ukrainian and Western assessments say that some 11,000 North Korean troops are deployed in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces occupy swathes of territory after staging a mass cross-border incursion in August.

"In battles yesterday and today near a single village, Makhnovka, in Kursk region, the Russian army lost up to a battalion of North Korean infantry soldiers and Russian paratroops," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address on Jan.

Trump hasn't publicly fleshed out his policy on Ukraine, but his previous comments have put a question mark over whether the United States will continue to be Ukraine's biggest and most important military backer.