Ukrainian Forces Push Deeper into Russia’s Kursk Region, Kyiv Says

Published on August 14, 2024

Kyiv’s forces are still advancing—and taking prisoners—in Russia’s western Kursk region despite Russian counter-attacks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Aug. 14. “We continue to advance further in the Kursk region,” Zelenskiy wrote on Telegram on Wednesday, “from one to two km in various areas since the start of the day. And more than 100 Russian prisoners of war in the same period.” “Our state’s ‘exchange fund’ is growing,” Zelenskyy said in an X post on Aug. 13, referring to captured Russian soldiers who might be exchanged for Ukrainian prisoners of war. Russia’s western Kursk region, which borders northeastern Ukraine, remains the target of an ongoing ground offensive by Kyiv, now in its second week....

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