{"id":13261,"date":"2025-03-16T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T08:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/as-russia-tries-to-push-ukraine-out-of-kursk-heres-what-to-know\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T08:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T08:45:41","slug":"as-russia-tries-to-push-ukraine-out-of-kursk-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/as-russia-tries-to-push-ukraine-out-of-kursk-heres-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"As Russia Tries to Push Ukraine Out of Kursk, Here\u2019s What to Know"},"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\">President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Saturday <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/15\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-kursk-cease-fire-talks.html\" title=\"\">accused President Vladimir V. Putin<\/a> of Russia of trying to surround Kyiv\u2019s forces in Russia\u2019s Kursk region to improve his position amid cease-fire talks with Washington, but said that Ukraine\u2019s forces had not been trapped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russian forces appear close to driving Ukraine from all of the territory it seized in the Kursk region last year \u2014 a push that appeared to accelerate after President Trump froze military aid and intelligence support to Ukraine on March 3. The flow of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-us-saudi-cease-fire-talks.html\" title=\"\">aid resumed<\/a> last week as Ukraine agreed to a Trump administration proposal for a 30-day cease-fire with Russia.<\/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\">On Thursday, Mr. Putin said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/world\/europe\/putin-ceasefire-ukraine-trump.html\" title=\"\">he was open<\/a> to the proposal but would seek to negotiate over a number of issues. <\/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\">Here is a look at the Ukrainian incursion \u2014 the first on Russian soil since World War II \u2014 and how Russian troops are fighting back.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5a5bd9c3\">Why is Kursk important?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kursk is an area of western Russia that borders the Sumy region of Ukraine. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russia-attacks-13-communities-in-sumy-oblast-injuring-1\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sumy<\/a> had long been thought to be a place where Russia might try opening a new front in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in a move that surprised even its key allies, Ukrainian troops caught Moscow off guard last summer, pouring across a thinly defended border and opening a new front themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The main <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/13\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-war-kursk-offensive.html\" title=\"\">objectives<\/a>, one Ukrainian colonel told The New York Times, were to divert Russian troops from the grueling fighting in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, push Moscow\u2019s artillery out of range of the Sumy region and damage Russian morale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Within weeks of the incursion, Ukraine had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/08\/23\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-kursk-invasion-map.html\" title=\"\">established<\/a> control over a slice of Kursk that its officials said encompassed nearly 500 square miles of farmland and settlements. Though barely a sliver of Russia, the largest country in the world, the assault was an embarrassment for Mr. Putin. It also surprised Ukraine\u2019s allies, including the United States, who had not been told in advance.<\/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 most important town in Kursk that Ukrainian forces seized was Sudzha, an administrative center with a population of around 5,000 people before the incursion.<\/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\">Analysts said that Ukraine\u2019s offensive was a gamble, stretching its military resources at a time when Kyiv\u2019s troops were struggling to defend a long front line in their own territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zelensky said that his military did not want to stay on Russian soil indefinitely, and that territory gained in Kursk could be used to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s position in future negotiations with Moscow.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-31f0dfd9\">How has Russia responded?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Initially, rather than diverting large numbers of troops to defend Kursk, Mr. Putin said that eastern Ukraine remained <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/05\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-putin-kursk.html\" title=\"\">Moscow\u2019s main military focus<\/a>. Russian troops continued their creeping advance within Ukraine, taking the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/02\/world\/europe\/ukraine-withdraws-vuhledar.html\" title=\"\">town of Vuhledar<\/a> in October and then pushing farther west.<\/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\">Weeks into its incursion in Kursk, Ukraine\u2019s push slowed and its troops began gradually to lose ground as Russian forces deployed there in greater numbers.<\/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\">Then, in the fall, Russia received a boost from its ally North Korea, which <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/north-korea-troops-russia-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">deployed around 11,000 soldiers<\/a> to Kursk to assist Moscow\u2019s defense. The deployment at first unnerved Ukraine and its allies. But the North Korean troops suffered wave after wave of heavy losses and, for a time, were <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/30\/world\/europe\/north-korea-troops-ukraine-russia.html\" title=\"\">withdrawn from the frontline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent weeks, Russian forces, assisted by North Korean fighters, have advanced rapidly in Kursk, using drones and fighter jets to retake much of the territory that Ukraine had held.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine\u2019s top military commander, Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, pushed back against the idea of an immediate Ukrainian withdrawal from the area. He said that night that Ukrainian troops would \u201chold the line in the Kursk region for as long as it remains reasonable and necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The next day, Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/world\/europe\/russia-sudzha-recapture-kursk-ukraine.html?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">claimed that its forces had retaken the town of Sudzha<\/a>. The Ukrainian military\u2019s general staff has not publicly commented on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/world\/europe\/russia-sudzha-recapture-kursk-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">Russia\u2019s capture of Sudzha<\/a>. But on Saturday morning, it released a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=998978719081873&amp;set=pb.100069092624537.-2207520000&amp;type=3\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">map of the battlefield<\/a> showing the town outside Ukrainian-controlled territory in the Kursk region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said its forces <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/15\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-kursk-cease-fire-talks.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">had retaken two villages outside Sudzha<\/a>, which leaves only small pockets of Russian land along the border under Ukrainian control.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-201d1764\">What is the situation now?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a post Friday on his Truth Social platform, Mr. Trump said thousands of Ukrainian troops were \u201ccompletely surrounded by the Russian military.\u201d That appeared to be a reference to the Russian claims that Ukrainian soldiers were surrounded in the Kursk region \u2014 claims that have been challenged by independent analysts and that Ukraine\u2019s military officials <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-sudzha-russian-forces.html\" title=\"\">have rejected.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hours after Mr. Trump\u2019s post on Truth Social, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/14\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-putin.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Putin insisted<\/a> at a news conference that Ukrainian forces still fighting in the Kursk region <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/world\/europe\/russia-sudzha-recapture-kursk-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">to lay down their arms<\/a>, saying he would spare their lives if they surrendered. He also said Ukrainian forces were encircled there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zelensky, speaking to journalists in Kyiv, called the claim untrue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere are Ukrainian troops in Kursk region,\u201d he said. \u201cTheir encirclement is Putin\u2019s lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia\u2019s forces, however, are trying to cut off and trap Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region by pushing into the neighboring Sumy region in Ukraine, Mr. Zelensky said, adding that Kyiv was countering the threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia\u2019s increasing ability to strike the road coming out of Sudzha into Ukraine has made withdrawals from the Kursk region perilous for Ukrainian forces, Ukrainian officials said on the condition of anonymity to discuss the battlefield situation. They noted, however, that the troops were not fully surrounded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was not clear how many Ukrainian forces remained in the Kursk region as of Saturday, with many of them having withdrawn in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Maria Varenikova<!-- --> and <!-- -->Anton Troianovski<!-- --> 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     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<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/kursk-ukraine-russia-war.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Saturday accused President Vladimir V. 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