Ukraine aimed to challenge the self-imposed red lines set by the Biden administration and other Western leaders regarding its ability to strike back against Russia.

The DeepState analytical project reported on the night of 9-10 January the advance of Russian forces in Donetsk and Kursk oblasts, resulting in the occupation of several settlements. Source: DeepState Details: Analysts wrote that the Russians occupied the settlements of Petropavlivka,

According to British intelligence, the army of the aggressor state russia has only been able to advance slightly into the territory controlled by Ukraine in

The DeepState project analysts updated their map on the night of 7-8 January, reporting on the Russian advance in Donetsk and Kharkiv oblasts and in the areas of the special operation in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.

Overnight into January 10, the analytical project DeepState reported on a significant advance of russian troops in the Donetsk, Kursk and Kharkiv Regions,

In addition to missiles, Ukraine has used long-range drones of its own build to attack Russian energy assets. A Ukrainian drone hit a terminal for gas condensate transshipment in the port of Ust-Luga, near Leningrad, on Saturday, causing a massive fire.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said forces operating in the Kursk region of Russia have captured two North Korean soldiers.

Ukraine’s security service says the North Korean POWs were ‘irrefutable evidence’ of Pyongyang’s involvement in Russia’s invasion

Ukraine is leaning into its efforts to hold onto the Russian territory of Kursk amid intense pressure from Russian and North Korean forces to take it back, apparently gambling that the region

In 2022, Moscow illegally annexed the Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk regions ... Sunday that Ukraine launched a fresh offensive in the Kursk region, where military analysts estimate Kyiv recently ...

The surprise attack seeks to reverse Ukraine’s decreasing hold of the region. Since Kyiv’s forces gained partial control of Kursk following a daring cross-border assault last August, Russian troops, aided by North Korean soldiers, have halved the territory held by Ukraine, albeit while suffering thousands of casualties.

According to the ministry, as a result of the battlegroup’s Center actions, "the adversary lost up to 585 troops, three armored combat vehicles, four motor vehicles and four artillery guns"