[Korrespondent] 22:02 A decision has been made in Kursk Oblast to evacuate the village of Glushkovo, the head of the region, Alexey Smirnov, said. Glushkovo is located 47 km northwest of Sudzha, on the road to Rylsk.
21:59 Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets reported that he discussed the issue of prisoners of war in the Kursk region with his Russian colleague Tatyana Moskalkova. "In my opinion, the Ukrainian Armed Forces strictly comply with the norms of international humanitarian law. Based on the Geneva Convention, the Ukrainian Armed Forces take Russian soldiers prisoner without subjecting them to torture or cruel treatment," the human rights ombudsman emphasized.
21:37 Publics write about the transition of the settlements of Vnezapnoe, Viktorovka, Gordeyevka, Lyubimovka, Novoivanovka, Zaoleshenka in the Kursk region under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
20:15 Ukraine is achieving its strategic goal in the Kursk region, Zelensky said in an evening video address.
19:32 A video is being circulated on social networks showing Russian conscripts captured from the Kursk region who are asking to be exchanged for Azov fighters:
16:38 The Armed Forces of Ukraine may open humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians from the Kursk region towards the Russian Federation and Ukraine, said Minister for Reintegration Irina Vereshchuk. According to her, humanitarian operations are also planned to support civilians within the Kursk operation zone.
16:25 The Russian border in the Kursk region was defended by conscripts, a Ukrainian Armed Forces officer told Bild: "On the first day of the offensive, the Russians had two lines of defense, which were mainly staffed by conscripts and border guards. To my surprise, we broke both the first and second lines on the very first day. Since then, there has been complete chaos among Russian soldiers."
16:18 Zelensky said that he held a meeting on the situation in the Kursk region: "We discussed key issues. Security, humanitarian aid, the creation of military commandant's offices if necessary. Ukraine is defending itself and the lives of its people in border communities and is taking active action on Russian territory. Our forces strictly comply with the requirements of international conventions and international humanitarian law."
14:53 The Russian Defense Ministry stated that Russian military in the Kursk region allegedly prevented attempts by mobile groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to break through in the areas of Skrylevka, Levshinka, Semenovka, Alekseevsky, and Kamyshny.
14:11 Russian troops have begun digging trenches in the Lgov area of ​​the Kursk region, located almost 50 km from the border, OSINTtechnical reports, citing satellite images. Fresh trenches are visible in images from several areas of the Kursk region at once. They appeared 1.5 km south of Lgov (near the Lgov-Sudzha highway), along the railway near the village of Viktorovka (4 km southwest of Lgov), at the crossroads of the Selikhovy Dory-Ivanino and Dyakonovo-Sudzha roads, and near the village of Druzhnaya (25 km east of Lgov). The farthest point is near Kursk, 75 km from the border.
13:35 In the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have advanced from one to two kilometers in different areas since the beginning of the day and captured more than 100 Russian soldiers, Zelensky reported. Syrsky said that "the search for and destruction of the enemy has been completed in Sudzha."
The President said that he had heard Syrsky's report on the situation in all main areas, especially Toretsk and Pokrovsky, as well as on the operation in Kursk Oblast. "We have not forgotten about our east for a second. I have instructed the commander-in-chief to strengthen the area from the packages currently being supplied by partners," Zelensky emphasized.
13:24 Bild writes that the Ukrainian Armed Forces also took control of the villages of Borki and Spalnoye in the Kursk region.
13:08 At night, in the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber, the General Staff reported.
12:50 Social networks are publishing new videos of Russian prisoners from Samara, Dagestan and Yaroslavl in the Kursk region. As one of the captured conscripts said, at the moment the Ukrainian offensive began, about half of the fighters from Akhmat's unit, with whom he was on the border, deserted, leaving their positions.
12:03 A TSN correspondent got to Kursk Oblast and reported live on the results of the work of the Ukrainian Armed Forces:
11:09 Ukrainian military showed a video from the village of Plekhovo in the Kursk region, which, according to them, came under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
10:31 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that Russia has withdrawn several units from the Kharkov direction and sent them to the Kursk region. In particular, these are Akhmat fighters, several marine brigades and two airborne battalions located near Vovchansk. Such actions indicate that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' raid into the Kursk region has provoked a forced regrouping of Russian forces, analysts state.
09:42 Russian publics write that three more villages in the Kursk region have come under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces: Ukrainian troops have entered Olgovka, Malaya Loknya and Kruglenke.
02:35 Biden commented for the first time on the Ukrainian Armed Forces operation in the Kursk region: "This creates a real dilemma for Putin. We are in direct, constant contact with the Ukrainians. That's all I'm going to say about this while this is all in the active phase."
00:16 The advance of the Defense Forces in the Kursk region is complicated by resistance in the direction of the regional center, on some lines the Ukrainian Armed Forces will dig in, writes Suspilne, citing sources among the military participating in the operation. The sources confirmed the capture of the city of Sudzha, but the industrial area has not yet been checked. An official statement should be made soon that the regional center is under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the publication notes.
Ukrainian soldiers also passed through the settlements of Kolmakov, Martynovka, Russkoye Porechnoye, Pogrebki. There are few local residents of the region, they are "a little indignant" at the actions of the Ukrainian army, the source said. "In the villages they are trying to fight as guerrillas using hunting weapons. There is currently strong resistance in the direction of Kursk. Accordingly, advancement is already difficult," the soldiers told Suspilnoye.