Russia's Defense Ministry says its forces have driven the Ukrainian army out of the biggest town in Russia’s Kursk border region, as U.S. officials sought the Kremlin’s response to a proposed 30-day ceasefire in the three-year that Ukraine

Russia’s defence ministry said on Thursday that its forces had retaken control of Sudzha, the biggest town in its Kursk region held by Ukrainian forces for the past six months. Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky also acknowledged the previous evening that Ukrainian troops had pulled back from parts of the Kursk region and that Russian forces had entered Sudzha,