On 6 August 2024, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast and clashed with the Russian Armed Forces and Russian border guard.[38][39][40] A state of emergency was declared in Kursk Oblast,[41] and Russian reserves were rushed to the area.[42] By the end of the first week, the Ukrainian military said it had captured 1,000 km2 (390 sq mi) of Russian territory, while Russian authorities acknowledged that Ukraine had captured 28 settlements.[43]

In the second half of August the front stabilized,[44] and in early October, the Ukrainian advance had stalled.[13] From November, North Korean forces were sent to the province to support the Russian military. By the end of that month, Russian forces recaptured around half of the territory Ukraine had occupied.[45] By 11 March 2025, most of the Ukrainian forces appeared to have retreated as a result of a Russian counterattack.[46] Russian troops entered Sudzha, around which a shrinking pocket of territory still controlled by Ukraine had formed, the next day.[47]

Ukrainian officials said the goals of the operation included inflicting damage on Russia's military, capturing Russian troops, pushing Russian artillery further out of range, hindering Russian supply lines and diverting their forces from other fronts. It also aimed to put pressure on the Russian government and force it into "fair" peace negotiations. By the end of August, the operation began to be criticized for diverting Ukrainian forces from the east, stretching Ukraine's personnel along the front and allowing Russia to advance toward Pokrovsk.[48][49] The Institute for the Study of War reported that Russia had moved forces from "lower-priority" areas, but not from Donetsk Oblast.[50]

The Ukrainian incursion into Kursk surprised Russia, some of Ukraine's allies, and many in the Ukrainian elite.[42][51][52] It is the most significant attack across the border since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,[53] and the first carried out primarily by Ukrainian regular forces. Earlier smaller incursions into Russia by pro-Ukrainian forces had taken place with Ukraine supporting them but denying explicit involvement.[54]

Western analysts differed in their assessment of the outcome of the Ukrainian offensive, with defence researcher Marina Miron viewing it as a strategic failure for Ukraine,[45] Markus Reisner taking the view that a correct assessment of the battle could only be given after the total withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from Kursk to determine the losses incurred, and former military advisor Nico Lange viewing it as a success.[55] Land warfare expert Nick Reynolds said that Ukraine had held the Sudzha pocket for a "remarkable" amount of time, and that the Ukrainian offensive had had a "shaping effect on Russian thinking".[47]

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The 2024 Kursk offensive occurred in late 2024 when the Ukrainian military and anti-Putin Russian volunteers invaded Kursk Oblast on the Russia-Ukraine border, aiming to pressure Russia into engaging in peace negotiations and pushing Russian artillery further out of range of Ukrainian border cities.

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian-based paramilitaries (primarily Russian emigrants) launched several incursions into Russia, capturing border village and battling the Russian military. By the late summer of 2024, Russian intelligence discovered that Ukrainian troops were massing near the border, but Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov ignored these reports, and President Vladimir Putin was not informed of the threat. As a result, most of the Russian soldiers guarding the border were conscripts, including FSB border guards, lightly equipped Russian Army infantry units, and Rosgvardiya troops. On 4 August, the Ukrainian 80th Air Assault Brigade began infiltrating into Kursk Oblast with the help of special forces, and they hid in the forests in preparation for the main assault on 6 August. Ukrainian armor crossed the border on that day, and Ukrainian forces captured 11 settlements by 7 August. Kursk Oblast was placed under a state of emergency, and Ukrainian soldiers jokingly proclaimed a "Kursk People's Republic" as a mockery of the Russian puppet Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. Over the next several days, Ukrainian HIMARS strikes destroyed a Russain convoy and destroyed an entire battalion, Chechen Akhmatunits fled from battle, Ukrainian troops captured the Russian ammunition depots at Sudzha, the FSB introduced a counter-terrorism operational regime in Kursk, Bryansk, and Belgorod Oblasts, and Ukrainian forces were finally halted by Russian reinforcements on 10 August. On 15 August, Ukraine established a military administration for the territory under its control. By late August, however, the operation began to be criticized for diverting Ukrainian forces from the embattled east, allowing Russia to launch its Pokrovsk offensive. Russia was able to move forces from the lower-priority areas of Kharkiv, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Kaliningrad to battle the Ukrainian invasion, but their forces in Donetsk remained in place. Russian forces launched counterattacks in September and October, recapturing half of their lost territory by 14 October. 50,000 Russian troops were amassed in Kursk Oblast by 10 November to launch a counteroffensive against the Ukrainians, and 10,000 North Korean light infantry were deployed to Kursk to aid the Russians in a major escalation of the conflict. By 5 January 2025, Ukraine estimated that up to a battalion of North Korean infantry soldiers had been wiped out at Makhnovka.

On 5 January 2025, Ukraine launched a new offensive in Kursk Oblast, hoping to draw Russian forces in from elsewhere on the front. While Ukrainian forces made initial advances and inflicted significant losses on the Russian and North Korean forces in the region, Russia intensified its counterattacks on 9 January, recapturing several villages with mechanized assaults. By then, of the 12,000 North Korean troops deployed to Russia, 4,000 were killed or wounded in Kursk Oblast. In March, Russian and North Korean forces launched a major counterattack that, bolstered by close air support, drove the Ukrainians out of Sudzha and threatened to encircle their remaining forces. On 12 March, Syrskyi announced the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces to "favorable defensive lines," and Putin visited a command post in Kursk Oblast that same day and ordered the full recapture of Kursk Oblast.

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