{"id":12208,"date":"2025-03-11T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/russia-begins-assault-on-ukrainian-occupied-town-of-sudzha-in-kursk-region\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T22:41:00","slug":"russia-begins-assault-on-ukrainian-occupied-town-of-sudzha-in-kursk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/russia-begins-assault-on-ukrainian-occupied-town-of-sudzha-in-kursk-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Begins Assault on Ukrainian-Occupied Town of Sudzha in Kursk Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russian forces have begun an assault on the town of Sudzha, the main population center in the Kursk region that was captured by Ukraine last year, a top Russian commander said on Tuesday. The advance puts Moscow on the verge of ending the first invasion of Russian territory since World War II.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe have surrounded Sudzha from almost all sides,\u201d Lt. Gen. Apti Alaudinov, a top Russian commander in Kursk, told Russian state television on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia\u2019s recent rapid moves around Sudzha have erased a large share of the territorial gains made by Ukrainian forces during their surprise attack into western Russia in August. Kyiv had held on to territory in Kursk despite heavy casualties in the hope of using it as a bargaining chip in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-us-saudi-cease-fire-talks.html\" title=\"\">peace talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Amid Ukraine\u2019s advance, 2,000 to 3,000 Russian civilians had taken refuge in Sudzha by February, according to Russian activists and Ukrainian officials. Their fate is unclear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By Tuesday afternoon, Ukrainian forces had retreated from the eastern side of town across the Psel River, Ian Matveev, an antiwar Russian military analyst, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/arrowsmap\/7705\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on his Telegram channel<\/a>. He cited videos posted on social media of Russian soldiers in the town. Deepstate, a Ukrainian group with ties to the Ukrainian Army that maps the battlefield, made a similar assessment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Matveev wrote that it remained unclear whether Ukrainian soldiers would try to mount a defense in the western side of Sudzha or continue retreating toward the Ukrainian border, a few miles west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday morning, Russian state media published a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DD_Geopolitics\/status\/1899407494008479746\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">photo of a Russian soldier<\/a> standing at the eastern entrance of Sudzha, a county seat in Kursk that became the main logistical and administrative hub for Ukraine\u2019s occupation forces. The New York Times verified the location of the photo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that its forces had liberated 12 Kursk villages and 38 square miles in the past 24 hours, and analysts speculated that Ukraine\u2019s presence in Russia could end within days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Kursk offensive is part of a wider effort by Russia and Ukraine to improve their positions ahead of peace talks mediated by the Trump administration, the Russian military analyst Valery Shiryaev <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Shiryaev_and_Shiryaev\/387\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on his Telegram channel<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As Moscow\u2019s forces pressed forward in Kursk, Ukraine on Tuesday <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-moscow-war-drones.html\" title=\"\">launched the largest drone attack on Russian cities<\/a> since the start of the war, a move that analysts interpreted as an attempt by Kyiv to show Washington that it can still take the fight to the enemy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEveryone is putting on the table the cards that they have,\u201d Mr. Shiryaev wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The rapid crumbling of Ukrainian defenses around Sudzha signals <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/12\/world\/europe\/kursk-russia-war-ukraine.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">an end to Kyiv\u2019s determined attempts to hold on to captured Russian<\/a> territory, which at its peak measured more than 500 square miles. To keep the territory, Ukraine had transferred to Kursk some of its best reserves, a strategy that critics said weakened Kyiv\u2019s ability to defend itself against Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukrainian officials have repeatedly defended their strategy in Kursk in political terms, saying that territory could be traded for land that Russia has occupied in Ukraine \u2014 a possibility that was vanishing rapidly by Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russian soldiers and commanders fighting in Kursk previously said in interviews that they had expected the battle for Sudzha to last months and become one of the bloodiest standoffs of the three-year war, which began with Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It had taken Moscow\u2019s soldiers half a year to grind through Ukrainian defenses and reach the outskirts of the town earlier this year \u2014 at the cost of thousands of casualties by most estimates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine\u2019s glacial retreat suddenly turned into a rout in the past week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russian military analysts said the breakthrough in Kursk begun on Saturday with a surprise attack on the Ukrainian rear. Russian officials said 800 fighters walked about 10 miles through a disused gas pipeline measuring 4.5 feet wide to emerge inside Ukrainian-held territory and engage the enemy in Sudzha\u2019s northern suburbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russian propagandists and officials described the operation as a heroic feat, while Ukrainian sources called it a death sentence, with some Russian attackers allegedly suffocating from residual methane in the pipeline. That claim could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI respect them for this creativity,\u201d said a Ukrainian military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. He added that the Russian attackers had suffered heavy casualties and that only 90 had made it from the pipeline into Sudzha.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While the effectiveness of the pipeline operation is debatable, it coincided with breaches of Ukrainian defenses by Russian troops in several parts of Kursk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine\u2019s top military commander, Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, said on Monday night that Kyiv was dispatching reinforcements to Kursk, but rejected Russian claims that a large contingent of Ukrainian soldiers there was at risk of encirclement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA decision was made to reinforce our group with the necessary forces and resources,\u201d he said. He added that Ukrainian forces were retreating to more favorable defensive positions, which some commentators interpreted as a possible prelude to a complete withdrawal from Kursk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russian military analysts said a withdrawal was likely to merely shift the battle to Ukrainian territory, pitting Kyiv\u2019s forces in the Sumy region that borders Kursk against tens of thousands Russian soldiers and their North Korean allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Sanjana Varghese<!-- -->, <!-- -->Marc Santora<!-- --> and <!-- -->Michael Schwirtz<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     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