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The strike on Toropets in Russia’s Tver region also forced partial evacuation of residents

Soldiers say they had no warning of what they were undertaking before the morale-boosting attack began

Zelenskiy renews calls for western allies to allow long-range attacks on Russian bases following strike in which 40 people were injured

Marinovka airbase becomes latest target of Kyiv’s ambitious long-range drone campaign

President tours northeastern region in first visit to border area since Ukrainian forces entered Russian territory.

In Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, soldiers prepare to cross the border into Russia’s Kursk region two weeks after Kyiv launched its surprise military incursion. Reporting from the Ukrainian side of the border, FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg speaks to motivated Ukrainian soldiers preparing to re-enter Russia as Ukrainian villagers in the…

Key civilian leader says attack on Russia’s Kursk region is first of ‘several stages’ in taking the fight to Moscow

The Ukrainian leader’s hope that incursion into Kursk would force Moscow to redeploy troops and ease pressure on eastern front was a risky move – and the outcome is far from clear

A Russian missile strike has sparked a blaze in the Ukrainian city of Sumy Saturday, while Ukrainian forces continue to push into Russia’s border region of Kursk

Secrecy was key in attack that has opened a new front in the war and left Russians looking leaden-footed

On the ground in Sumy Askold Krushelnycky hears Kyiv’s objectives for the incursion and how the success of the surprise operation has given forces ‘a new swagger’