Over 100,000 Kursk residents were displaced after Kyiv's troops came over Russia's western border in August.
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00:00Ukraine is reportedly losing ground in the Russian province of Kursk, with the senior
00:07Ukrainian military official saying over 40% of land seized has been lost.
00:15Russia deployed tens of thousands of troops to Kursk after Kiev's forces launched their
00:20incursion, surprising Moscow two and a half years into their full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
00:28Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commented on the situation in the region, saying the
00:33goal of Russian President Vladimir Putin was to push Kiev's troops out by January 20th
00:39of next year.
00:42Russian officials have released footage of Kursk residents returning to the area, with
00:47authorities saying more than 120,000 civilians were evacuated after Ukraine's incursion into
00:53the region in August.
00:57This past week has seen the most significant escalation in hostilities that Ukraine has
01:01witnessed and marks a new chapter in the nearly three-year war, one tinged with uncertainty
01:07and fear.