The warriors of the Special Operations Forces inflicted significant losses on the enemy troops during operations in the Kursk direction,” the video description said. The post specified that the several dozen captured servicemen are from Russia’s 810th Marine Brigade.

The Russian Defense Ministry's statement is the first public confirmation of the attacks by Moscow, following multiple reports of strikes after Washington permitted Ukraine to use its ATACMS missiles to strike against targets on Russian soil.

Ukrainian forces continue to suffer the consequences of their defeat in Vuhledar, a fortress town in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast. Advancing past Vuhledar, a ramshackle Russian force is in a position to flank Ukrainian troops in their fallback position in the town of Velyka Novosilka.

Forty-six residents of Kursk Oblast returned to Russia from Ukraine with the assistance of Belarus today, Russia’s human rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova wrote in her Telegram channel

Russia has made a rare admission, saying that a key air defence system and an air base in the Kursk region were hit by Ukraine with US-supplied Atacms missiles. The defence ministry statement, which threatened retaliation,