INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
6 offensive marks the first time since World War II that foreign troops have occupied Russian territory.According to DeepState UA, an
open-source intelligence digital mapping service, the Ukrainian army has captured at least 646 square kilometers in the Kursk region
Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, claims that 93 settlements have come under Ukrainian control, the largest of which is
Sudzha, a town with a pre-war population of about 5,000 people.Founded in the late 17th century, Sudzha was originally a majority Ukrainian
city within the Sloboda Ukraine region and served as the administrative capital of a Ukrainian Cossack unit
Over the centuries, as Ukraine came under Russian imperial and later Soviet control, the city alternated between Ukrainian and Russian
rule.Today, the town is the site of a key natural gas transit point on a pipeline bringing Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine.Here is a look
at photos from Sudzha following Ukraine's capture of the town:
