Sudzha, roughly six miles inside Russian territory, is the biggest of 80 settlements that Ukraine claims to have taken during the ten days since its surprise incursion into Russia began.
To everyone’s surprise, but none more so that Vladimir Putin it would appear, the Ukrainian armed forces launched an incursion into Russian territory in the Kursk Oblast in the early hours on August 6 th.
Russia has reportedly begun pushing out Ukrainian forces in the Kursk border region.
German Major General Christian Freuding, head of the Bundeswehr's Situation Center Ukraine at the German Ministry of Defence, has praised the decision of Ukrainian forces to launch an offensive on the Russian border.