INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
in southwestern Russia.The battlefield report follows claims by pro-war military bloggers that Ukrainian troops launched an early morning
offensive on the villages of Ulanok and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, located near the Ukrainian-controlled city of Sudzha.Russian forces fought
local time, the ministry said in a statement.It said that Ukraine had deployed two mechanized battalions and further claimed that Russian
forces destroyed dozens of Ukrainian armored vehicles, tanks and military engineering vehicles.The Moscow Times could not independently
The ministry said last month that Russian forces managed to reclaim more than 60% of the lost territory.The DeepState military blog, which
has ties to the Ukrainian army, estimates that Kyiv still controls 428 square kilometers (165 square miles) of land in the Kursk region
