Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the Kursk operation "very important." He also did not rule out the role of the Kursk region in negotiations with Russia, according to his statement after a meeting with UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy.

Competing claims have emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia's Kursk region under Ukrainian control.

Competing claims have emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region, that Ukraine has controlled for five months.View on euronews