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Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Freight train derailed in Russia's Kursk Oblast after bridge collapse
A railway bridge collapsed in Russia's Kursk Oblast on the morning of 1 June 2025, derailing a freight train. Source: Alexander Khinshtein, Acting Governor of Kursk Oblast, on Telegram Details: The collapse occurred overnight on the 48th kilometre of the Trosna–Kalinovka highway in the Zheleznogorskyi district as a freight train was passing over it. Khinshtein reported that part of the train fell onto the road below the bridge. He stated that one of the train drivers sustained leg injuries, according to preliminary reports. Background: On the night of 31 May, a road bridge in Russia's Bryansk Oblast collapsed onto a passenger train, killing seven people and injuring about 70. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Russians occupy Volodymyrivka in Sumy Oblast
DeepState analysts reported on the night of 31 May that Russian forces had occupied the village of Volodymyrivka in Sumy Oblast. Source: DeepState, a Ukrainian group of military analysts Quote: "The enemy has occupied Volodymyrivka." Details: Volodymyrivka is part of the Khotin hromada. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.] The village lies less than 2 km from the Russian village of Gordeevka in Kursk Oblast. The Russian border is approximately 1 km away. The Snahist River, a left tributary of the Seym River, flows through the village. Background: On the evening of 31 May, DeepState reported the advance of Russian forces near the village of Oleksandriia in Sumy Oblast. Therefore, another stretch of Russian-controlled territory has expanded in Sumy Oblast, in addition to the Zhuravka-Novenke-Veselivka-Basivka area. On 31 May, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stated that Russian forces had significantly intensified operations on the Zaporizhzhia front and focused its efforts on Sumy Oblast. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Partisans disrupt Russian weapons supply to Kursk Oblast
Partisans from the ATESH resistance movement have claimed that they have conducted a sabotage operation, disabling a relay cabinet in Russia's Tula Oblast and slowing down the supply of weapons and military equipment to Kursk Oblast. Source: ATESH on Telegram Quote: "Our movement agents set fire to a facility located on the railway track near Yasnogorsk, on the route leading towards Kursk Oblast, where a grouping of Russian occupiers is concentrated." Details: ATESH explained that their planned action had aimed to slow down the supply of weapons and military equipment to the battlefield. Quote: "This action was carefully planned: the damaged relay cabinet provides communication and control of track switches on a critically important section of the railway. Without timely power supply, the automated systems cannot redirect trains, causing serious delays in the movement of freight trains." "All of this delays the redeployment of reserves and complicates the organisation of new [Russian] offensive operations." Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
CNN
21-05-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Putin makes first visit to Kursk since Russia claimed to have recaptured the region
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Kursk for the first time since Moscow claimed to have completely recaptured the region following a surprise incursion by Ukrainian forces last year, Russian state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday. Putin met with municipal leaders in the city of Kurchatov and visited the Kursk nuclear power plant, which is currently under construction, the Kremlin said, according to TASS. Video footage posted by Russian state media showed Putin dressed in a suit speaking with what appeared to be local volunteers. The news agency did not report when the visit took place. Last August Ukraine launched a shock incursion into Kursk, swiftly capturing territory in what was the first ground invasion of Russia by a foreign power since World War II. Since then, Russia, with support from North Korean soldiers, has been fighting to oust Ukraine's forces from its borders, while Kyiv poured precious resources into holding onto its territory there, with the view of using it as a key bargaining chip in any peace talks. Putin claimed last month that Russian forces had recaptured Kursk and said North Korean soldiers took part in the fighting to recover territory in the region. Kyiv has insisted its troops are fiercely battling to preserve their foothold in the territory. Last week Ukraine said it is still pursuing the ground war inside Russia. 'We are continuing our active operations in the Kursk and Belgorod regions – we are proactively defending Ukraine's border areas,' President Zelensky said in his nightly address last Wednesday.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Battalion commander of the 47th brigade submits resignation report, slams military leadership over 'stupid tasks'
Oleksandr Shyrshyn, battalion commander of the 47 Separate Mechanized Brigade, has submitted his resignation, sharply criticizing Ukraine's military leadership for what he described as senseless orders and unnecessary casualties. "I have never received more stupid tasks than in the current direction," Shyrshyn wrote in a blunt Facebook post announcing his decision on May 16. "Someday I will tell you the details, but the stupid loss of people, trembling in front of a stupid generals, leads to nothing but failures." Ukraine's General Staff, who was tagged in Shyrshyn's post, had not commented on the matter at the time of the publication. The Kyiv Independent reported in 2023 that the brigade, which was formed from scratch in 2022 and is often known by the name 'Magura," was prepared with the summer 2023 counteroffensive in mind; its soldiers were trained in NATO countries and equipped with superior new Western equipment. In 2024, the brigade was engaged in combat operations within Russia's Kursk Oblast. Ukraine launched its cross-border incursion into Kursk Oblast in August 2024, marking the first major foreign ground offensive into Russian territory since World War II. The operation sought to delay a planned Russian push into Ukraine's Sumy Oblast and redirect Russian forces away from eastern Donetsk Oblast. Moscow began a major counteroffensive in early March, retaking large portions of territory including the town of Sudzha. Ukrainian forces have since withdrawn from much of the area but still maintain limited control in some zones as of late April despite Russia's claims that its forces have fully recaptured the territory of the region. Meanwhile, Shyrshyn on May 16 accused the military command of focusing on punishments rather than results. "All they are capable of is reprimands, investigations, imposition of penalties. Everyone is going to hell," he wrote. "Political games and assessment of the real state of affairs do not correspond to either reality or possibilities. They played games." Shyrshyn said he has filed a formal report requesting dismissal from his post and expressed hope that it would be accepted soon. Read also: Trump to talk to Putin on May 19 in push to end 'bloodbath' We've been working hard to bring you independent, locally-sourced news from Ukraine. Consider supporting the Kyiv Independent.
