Novaya Evropa reports on the latest news surrounding the Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive – and discusses it with a military expert Ukrainian journalists publish a report from Sudzha, and Russia denies losing control of the city. The sides are pulling up reserves and digging in, and conscripts are threatened with being sent to Kursk if they do not sign contracts. "Novaya Gazeta Evropa" has collected the main events in the Kursk region.

Kasparov in absentia argued with other oppositionists about whether it was ethical to help the inhabitants of the Kursk region to whom the war came. Novyevropa talked about this with volunteers People evacuated from the war zone between Russian and Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region are sitting next to tents at a temporary accommodation point in Kursk, August 12, 2024.

The main events of August 14 The gap in the Kursk region, the SRO Ilfat Khayretdinov with relatives. Photo: social networks The gap in the Kursk region, the SRO Ilfat Khayretdinov with relatives. Photo: social networks The media established the names of 30 conscripts who disappeared in the Kursk region from the beginning of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. WSJ: Russia began to transfer some of the troops from Ukraine due to the offensive of the Armed Forces in the Kursk region.

Novaya Evropa sources say that the militia was recruited from “local private security company employees” In the Kursk region, against the backdrop of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' offensive, pro-Russian security forces in civilian clothes and with weapons were spotted. Novaya Evropa's sources say that this is a militia recruited from "local employees of private security companies (PSCs)".

Ukrainian officers in the Sumy region near the border with Russia, 11 August. Photo: Vyacheslav Ratynskyi / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Ukrainian officers in the Sumy region near the border with Russia, 11 August. Photo: Vyacheslav Ratynskyi / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have advanced another 1–2 kilometres into Russia’s Kursk region, AFU Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday.

Rashid Temrezov. Photo: Telegram New military recruits from Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Karachay-Cherkessia are to receive total up-front payments of up to 2 million rubles (€20,300) when they sign a contract with the Defence Ministry to fight in Ukraine, the republic’s head Rashid Temrezov has announced .

A resident of the Kursk village captured by the Armed Forces said that people left their homes without the help of the authorities The Ukrainian military in the village of Plekhovo Kursk region. Photo: @voloshyn_roman / Tiktok The Ukrainian military in the village of Plekhovo Kursk region. Photo: @voloshyn_roman / Tiktok The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the battles in the area of ​​the village of Plekhovo Kursk Region on August 10.

Photo: EPA-EFE / HANNIBAL HANSCHKE Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor General has accused a Ukrainian diving instructor of using explosives to blow up the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea two years ago, German media reported on Wednesday. The German authorities issued a European arrest warrant for a Ukrainian man who, in accordance with Germany’s strict privacy laws, was named only as Vladimir Z, over his suspected involvement in the major 2022 infrastructure attack .

Russian authorities continue to deny the loss of the city The TSN TV channel showed a story from Sudzha in the Kursk region. This was reported in their official Telegram channel. Ukrainian journalist Natalia Nagornaya, in particular, showed the Russian flag, which will be transferred to the museum of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Journalists from the Agency established that it was removed from a boarding school on Lenin Street.

From the beginning of the attack of the Ukrainian army in the Kursk region, at least 30 Russian military soldiers disappeared. Names 22 of them were able to establish journalists from “important stories”, the identity of another confirmed the “new newspaper Europe”. The names of the seven conscripts who were shot in the video in Ukrainian captivity are also known.

Pavel Kushnir. Photo: Kurgan Regional Philharmonic / VK Twenty two of the world’s most celebrated classical musicians have signed a tribute to Russian pianist Pavel Kushnir, who died on hunger strike last month while in pretrial detention awaiting trial for his criticism of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

MIG-31K supersonic interceptor aircraft perform a fly-by over the Kremlin towers on Victory Day, Moscow, 9 May 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE / SERGEI ILNITSKY Ukrainian drones attacked an air base in central Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region overnight Tuesday where the country’s first MiG regiment equipped with hypersonic Kinzhal missiles is believed to be stationed.

Russia is withdrawing some of its military forces from Ukraine in response to the Ukrainian Armed Forces' offensive in the Kursk region, The Wall Street Journal writes , citing American officials. The journalists' sources did not specify the number of troops being transferred to the Kursk region, nor did they say from which direction they were coming. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are also sending reinforcements to the captured territories.

A serviceman moves through a trench in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, 6 November 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE / Oleg Petrasyuk Russian troops have started digging trenches deep inside the Kursk region amid the continuing Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) incursion into Russian territory, according to OSINTtechnical, an X account about open-source intelligence.

A criminal case has been opened against two residents of Nizhny Novgorod under the article on "military fakes" (clause "b" of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Both suspects have been detained, the regional department of the Investigative Committee reported .