[Korrespondent] 15:13 The International Committee of the Red Cross visited prisoners of war captured in the Kursk region, Russian media reported, citing a representative of the organization. "We were able to visit prisoners captured in connection with the events in the Kursk region. They were also able to send messages to their families through us," the organization reported. The ICRC does not comment on the number, location, or names of these people.
September 23
11:34 Publics write that a new breakthrough in the Kursk region occurred in the area of ​​the village of Medvezhye about a week ago.
11:30 Zelensky's victory plan, which he will present this week during his visit to the United States, contains a clause on continuing the Ukrainian Armed Forces' operation in the Kursk region, The Times writes.
11:19 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have broken through another section of the border with Russia, the press service of the 95th separate Polesie airborne assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported. This is already the second successful operation to break through the Russian border since the beginning of the operation in the Kursk region. The paratroopers showed a video that shows the development of passages in engineering barriers, the entry of airborne assault units into enemy territory and the first battles in the border zone, where the airborne assault tankers destroyed an enemy stronghold. The brigade did not specify the details of the operation.
September 22
21:18 Zelensky said in an interview with The New Yorker that the Kursk operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces slowed down the Russians and forced them to transfer some of their forces to Kursk - about 40 thousand soldiers. Already now, Ukrainian fighters in the east say that they are attacked less often, the president added. "I am not saying that this is a resounding success or that this will lead to the end of the war or the end of Putin. This showed our partners what we are capable of," Zelensky explained.
He stressed that the Ukrainian side continues to supply food and water to people in the territories controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Zelensky also added that these people can freely leave, but do not do so. "We showed the Russians a very important truth: that the Russian Federation did not come to their aid, but left them to survive. They should know who they put in power," Zelensky noted.
September 20
23:53 The Ukrainian Armed Forces' operation in the Kursk region took Kiev's Western allies and many members of the Ukrainian elite by surprise, as very few people were involved in the planning. However, documents seized from Russian military personnel indicate that the Russian command foresaw the possibility of such an operation several months before the Ukrainian Armed Forces' offensive. For more details, see the article The Russian Federation knew, but couldn't do anything about it.
11:59 Russians are accommodating refugees from Sudzha in the Kursk region in Mariupol, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. According to him, Russian refugees are staying in temporary accommodation centers set up by the United Russia party. The "authorities" of the occupiers have chosen stolen Ukrainian property in the Primorsky district of Mariupol, not far from the sea, as a place for the refugees to stay.
11:10 The Guardian writes that Moscow knew about the preparation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces operation in the Kursk region, but failed to prepare. At the end of August, the publication's journalists met with a Ukrainian special forces group, which seized documents from abandoned Russian positions and returned to Ukraine. Most of the documents came from units of the 488th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of Russia. The entry from January 4 spoke of the "potential for a breakthrough on the state border" of Ukrainian armed groups, after which there were several more warnings.