Ukraine aimed to challenge the self-imposed red lines set by the Biden administration and other Western leaders regarding its ability to strike back against Russia.

In its latest estimate of the conflict, the British Military Intelligence focused on the Ukrainian efforts to maintain the foothold inside Russia, stating that “on January 5, 2025, in Russia’s Kursk oblast,

The DeepState analytical project reported on the night of 9-10 January the advance of Russian forces in Donetsk and Kursk oblasts, resulting in the occupation of several settlements. Source: DeepState Details: Analysts wrote that the Russians occupied the settlements of Petropavlivka,

According to British intelligence, the army of the aggressor state russia has only been able to advance slightly into the territory controlled by Ukraine in

Overnight into January 10, the analytical project DeepState reported on a significant advance of russian troops in the Donetsk, Kursk and Kharkiv Regions,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said forces operating in the Kursk region of Russia have captured two North Korean soldiers.

In addition to missiles, Ukraine has used long-range drones of its own build to attack Russian energy assets. A Ukrainian drone hit a terminal for gas condensate transshipment in the port of Ust-Luga, near Leningrad, on Saturday, causing a massive fire.

Ukraine is leaning into its efforts to hold onto the Russian territory of Kursk amid intense pressure from Russian and North Korean forces to take it back, apparently gambling that the region

Ukraine’s security service says the North Korean POWs were ‘irrefutable evidence’ of Pyongyang’s involvement in Russia’s invasion

Both soldiers were captured on 9 January in the Russian border region of Kursk. Another North Korean soldier was captured ... taken control of the town of Shevchenko in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, located near the outskirts of the city of Pokrovsk.

The surprise attack seeks to reverse Ukraine’s decreasing hold of the region. Since Kyiv’s forces gained partial control of Kursk following a daring cross-border assault last August, Russian troops, aided by North Korean soldiers, have halved the territory held by Ukraine, albeit while suffering thousands of casualties.