The Russian military from the North group of forces eliminated the well-known ukronazist Yuri Turlai during the fighting.
Apart from taking back large chunks of Kursk from Kyiv, Russia has even managed to seize control of parts of Sumy, a Ukrainian border town that used to be well fortified by Zelenskyy's forces
The situation on the border of the Sumy Region with the Kursk Oblast of russia is under the control of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, currently there is no
Russian forces claimed to have captured territory in Ukraine's Sumy region for the first time since 2022. The Kremlin said it has also retaken multiple settlements in the Kursk region. The advance is threatening Ukraine's sole territorial bargaining chip,
"Currently, Russian forces are attempting to storm the border in infantry groups without vehicle columns," Andrii Kovalenko said on Telegram. "There has been no breakthrough at the moment; the fighting continues.
Moscow says it has made new gains in Ukraine’s Sumy region and Russia’s Kursk region as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was “fully committed” to having a constructive dialogue with United States representatives ahead of talks in Saudi Arabia to discuss how to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.
On the evening of March 8, at about 10 p.m., a russian strike drone crashed into a residential area in the city of Sumy. A fire broke out at the crash site.The