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Reuters
27-06-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Ukrainian drone attack on Kursk injures Chinese reporter, Russia says
June 27 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Kursk region on the border with Ukraine injured a war correspondent from the Chinese news outlet Phoenix TV, Russian authorities said late on Thursday, urging the United Nations to respond to the incident. "A Ukrainian drone today struck the village of Korenevo in the Korenevsky district," acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, said on the Telegram messaging app. "A 63-year-old correspondent, Lu Yuguang, who went to the border area on his own, was injured." Khinshtein said in a later post that the journalist had skin cuts to his head and after treatment, refused hospitalisation. Russia's foreign ministry called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and other international organisations to "promptly respond and give a proper assessment" of the incident. "The targeted attack .... indicates the intention of the Kyiv regime to silence and de facto destroy representatives of any media that seek to convey objective information," Maria Zakharova, the foreign ministry's spokeswoman, said in a Telegram post. Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no immediate response from Ukraine's foreign ministry and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office to Reuters' request for comment outside business hours. Phoenix TV reported the incident but has not issued a separate statement. According to Russia's state and official media outlets, Lu has been reporting on the war since its early days. Russia launched the war with a full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022. Lu told Russia's state news agencies that he was feeling fine. "Western journalists are not visible at all (in Kursk)," Lu said in a video posted by TASS on social media, with his head in bandages, "We, Chinese journalists, want to convey what happened in the Kursk region." Russia and Ukraine have launched numerous cross-border attacks since the start of the war. Parts of Kursk were seized and occupied by Ukrainian forces in a surprise offensive in August 2024 before they were driven out earlier this year.
New York Times
13-03-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Russia Claims to Have Regained Control of Key Kursk Town
Russia's Defense Ministry said Thursday that the military had regained full control of the town of Sudzha, the main population center in the part of the Kursk region of Russia that Ukrainian troops had captured last summer. Ukrainian officials have not confirmed a retreat from the town, where the previous night Kyiv's military had reported fierce fighting. If confirmed, that would leave only small pockets of Russian land along the border under Ukrainian control — and could deny Kyiv a key point of leverage in any cease-fire negotiations as U.S. officials head to Moscow for talks. Ukraine's top military commander, Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, said on Wednesday night that Ukrainian troops would 'hold the line in the Kursk region for as long as it remains reasonable and necessary.' Russian advances Russian-claimed advances Ukrainian-held territory Russia claimed it had taken Sudzha, the main Ukrainian outpost in Kursk. RUSSIA Korenevo Glushkovo Snagost Sudzha Guyevo UKRAINE Detail UKRAINE Sumy 5 miles Russian advances Russian-claimed advances Ukrainian-held territory RUSSIA Russia claimed it had taken Sudzha, the main Ukrainian outpost in Kursk. Glushkovo Snagost Sudzha Guyevo UKRAINE Detail Sumy UKRAINE 5 miles Note: As of March 12. Source: The Institute for the Study of War with American Enterprise Institute's Critical Threats Project By Samuel Granados Parts of the Kursk region have been under Ukrainian control since August, when Ukraine's military mounted a surprise cross-border offensive and quickly captured approximately 500 square miles of land, including the town of Sudzha. At the time, the move was seen as an attempt to stretch Russian forces thin across multiple fronts, especially as Ukrainian forces were steadily losing ground elsewhere on their own territory. Holding Russian territory was also seen as a potential bargaining chip for Ukraine in any eventual cease-fire talks. Russia made steady progress in Kursk over the past week Russian advances Russian-claimed advances Ukrainian-held territory MARCH 6 MARCH 10 MARCH 12 RUSSIA RUSSIA Korenevo Korenevo Korenevo RUSSIA Snagost Snagost Snagost Sudzha Sudzha Sudzha Guyevo Guyevo Guyevo UKRAINE UKRAINE UKRAINE Sumy Sumy Russia made steady progress in Kursk over the past week Russian advances Russian-claimed advances Ukrainian-held territory MARCH 6 RUSSIA Korenevo Snagost Sudzha UKRAINE Guyevo MARCH 10 Korenevo RUSSIA Snagost Sudzha UKRAINE Guyevo MARCH 12 Korenevo RUSSIA Snagost Sudzha UKRAINE Guyevo Source: The Institute for the Study of War with American Enterprise Institute's Critical Threats Project By Samuel Granados Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
