Ukraine says the 'intensity of combat' is high and it is continuing to advance, taking a further 15 square miles in 24 hours.
Russia has begun to thwart a week-long Ukrainian incursion into its Kursk region, Moscow has claimed. Russian army units - including fresh reserves, aircraft, drone teams and artillery forces - have stopped Ukrainian troops from gaining further territory near the settlements of Obshchy Kolodez, Snagost, Kauchuk and Alexeyevsky, the Russian defence ministry said.
He claimed Russia had launched more than 2,000 strikes from Kursk in recent months, using anti-aircraft missiles, artillery, mortars, drones, 255 glide bombs and more than 100 missiles. Despite Ukraine's incursion being the largest attack on Russia since the Second World War, the United States said it had 'nothing to do with this'. White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One: 'We have no involvement.
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