NADIA KARPOVA/REUTERS KYIV — Russia said on Saturday its troops had retaken three villages seized by Ukraine in its Kursk border region, in a fresh setback for Kyiv ahead of talks to try to end ...

According to the president, "it is absolutely necessary to plan the restoration of these cultural facilities in advance" ...

Vladimir Putin went further than that, commissioning an oil painting of Trump ... In the middle of the battle, Trump held a ...

"It's nerves," he says at a temporary refuge for people displaced by the fighting in Russia's Kursk region ... the scene of the largest tank battle in history. That battle, on August 23, 1943 ...

“The end of the battle is coming,” Paroinen said in a phone interview. How much Russian territory Ukraine still controls in Kursk could not be independently confirmed, and soldiers reported ...

Both presidents claimed Friday that Ukrainian forces were surrounded in Kursk, the area where Kyiv’s troops stunned Russia with a cross-border incursion over the summer. Independent analysts ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asserted that Ukraine's defence forces have achieved the Kursk operation's principal objective of drawing Russian soldiers away from the cities of Pokrovsk ...

(CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on Ukrainian troops in the Russian region of Kursk to surrender, as diplomatic back-and-forth continues over a potential US-brokered ceasefire ...

Putin urged Russian forces to swiftly expel Ukrainian troops and called for captured soldiers to be treated as terrorists. "People who are in the Kursk region, who commit crimes against civilians ...

Vladimir Putin visits a command centre for Russian troops during a visit to the Kursk region Credit: AFP via Getty Images Ukraine reportedly started evacuating some of its most battle-hardened ...

The images shared by Kremlin-controlled media were shocking: Russian troops hunched, dirt on their faces, as they crept through an empty gas pipeline under Ukrainian defence lines. Since Kyiv ...