The Latest Breaking News from Kursk

Kyiv and Moscow trade attacks overnight as Russia sends more artillery units to Kursk to push back Ukraine’s army.

President publishes video on independence day showing him near where Ukraine launched Kursk offensive. What we know on day 914

President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed more "retribution" against Russia on Ukrainian Independence Day Saturday, as Kyiv and Moscow announced the exchange of 230 prisoners just over two weeks into Ukraine's surprise offensive on Kursk.

It is the first such exchange since Ukraine launched a surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region on August 6.

Ukraine’s president pledges ‘retribution’ and calls Russian President Vladimir Putin a ‘sick old man from Red Square’.

Russia and Ukraine on Saturday announced that they had exchanged 115 prisoners of war each, just over two weeks after Kyiv launched a surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk region. The prisoner exchange came on Ukraine's Independence Day, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a video address, said Russia wanted to…

The Kursk offensive and Putin’s hubris give the country hope. But Ukrainians are under no illusion that peace will come soon, say Nataliya Gumenyuk and others

Reports say several NATO countries, including UK and Germany, have allowed Ukraine to use their weapons in Kursk.

New US military aid on its way including Himars and Javelins; fuel ferry sinks in Russian port after Ukrainian strike. What we know on day 912

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine of trying to attack the Kursk nuclear power station, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from where Kyiv's forces are mounting a major cross-border offensive.

Since August 6, the war in Ukraine has become a tale of two major offensives. Ukrainian forces have invaded Russia, grabbing more than 1,000 square kilometres of Kursk Oblast, which they are now defending fiercely. At the same time, in the Donbas in eastern Ukraine, Russian forces are moving on…