Ukraine claims it fully captured strategic Russian town in Kursk region
Al Jazeera
Moscow evacuates more residents from the border region as Ukraine pushes on with its daring incursion into Russian territory.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said his country’s forces have taken full control of the strategic Russian town of Sudzha in the Kursk region in their incursion into Russian territory.
Zelenskyy also said on Thursday that a military commander’s office is being set up in the town, which had a prewar population of around 5,000 people.
Sudzha holds a measuring station for Russian natural gas that flows through Ukrainian pipelines to Europe.
Russia did not immediately respond to Zelenskyy’s statement, but its defence ministry said earlier Thursday that Russian forces had blocked attempts to take several other communities.
On Wednesday, Russian officials had also denied that Ukraine captured the town.
