At the height of the campaign, Ukrainian forces controlled some 500 square miles of Russian territory. Now they hold just a small sliver of land along the border.

Ukrainian forces have likely retreated from nearly all of Russia’s Kursk region. Kyiv’s months-long campaign to seize and hold Russian territory appears to be coming to an end due to Moscow’s counterattacks,

Ukraine has confirmed its withdrawal from the biggest town it held in Kursk, as Russia battles the last of Kyiv’s troops out of the key region. On Thursday, Russia announced it had recaptured the town of Sudzha in Kursk, seven months after Ukrainian forces seized the area in its August 2024 incursion.