Following Russia's recapture of Ukrainian-held territory in the Kursk region, fighting has intensified along the Ukraine-Russia border. Russian forces, employing advanced weaponry like fiber-optic drones, have pushed into Ukrainian settlements, causing widespread displacement.
Ukrainian forces, according to Sumy province's military administration head Volodymyr Artyukh, have successfully repelled some Russian incursions.
Several thousand civilians have been evacuated from border regions due to the escalating conflict and shelling.
LAST MONTH Russia drove Ukrainian forces out of most of the territory in Russia’s Kursk region that they had seized the previous August. The Russians deployed their own elite brigades, North Korean troops and a new weapon—fibre-optic drones that are controlled by a long, lightweight filament rather than by radio signals, making them impossible to jam. Now the fighting has spilled back over the border into Ukraine. Settlements close to the frontier are being pummelled, and several thousand civilians have fled or been evacuated. Some Russian assault units have crossed the border—though so far, insists Volodymyr Artyukh, the head of Sumy province’s military administration, “they have been eliminated.”
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