INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Four workers were killed and at least two others wounded in a Ukrainian attack on a feed mill in the southwestern Kursk region, Russian
authoritiessaid Wednesday.Acting Kursk region Governor Alexander Khinshtein did not indicate which weapons were used to carry out the
whichreported downing two Ukrainian drones over the region overnight, did not comment on any attacks in the Kursk region in the morning.The
deadly attack came as Russian forces reported rapid advances in the region, retaking villages and territory captured by Ukrainian forces
According to them, Ukrainian forces seem to have withdrawn from the town without a fight, an apparent attempt to preserve their personnel
and equipment.Ukrainian forces initially seized 1,376 square kilometers (531 square miles) of land in the Kursk region after their August
offensive, aiming to use the occupied territory as leverage in future peace negotiations with Russia.As of Wednesday, the area under
Ukrainian control had shrunk to less than 200 square kilometers (77 square miles), according to DeepState, a battlefield tracker with ties
to the Ukrainian military.
