The number of Russian troops pulled over to Kursk Oblast, announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky in early September, was higher — 60,000.

Operation in Kursk Oblast: around 40,000 Russian troops have already been drawn to this direction,” said Zelenskyy. “Our active measures continue, and our [POW] exchange fund is growing.” He added that Ukrainian forces had managed to reduce the intensity of Russian assaults in Donetsk Oblast,

To bastardize Faulkner, in Ukraine’s capital, the past isn’t past: it is a soldier in the battles of the present and the future. A brand-new exhibit in Kyiv’s World War II museum, housed in the base of the towering Mother Ukraine statue,