Ukraine said on Tuesday it had captured 74 settlements in Russia’s Kursk region since launching its incursion a week earlier.
Ukraine may be able to glean key intelligence on Russia’s logistics after Kyiv’s troops swept over the border into the Kursk town of Sudzha last week, according to open-source intelligence accounts tracking the incursion.
The Sudzha railway station, part of a larger network linking Kursk to other locations in Russia, could be a „gold mine“ for Kyiv in deciphering Moscow’s logistics chains through schedules and internal communications, one account posted to X. Several other accounts similarly argued that Ukraine could secure access to Russian rail computer systems based at the railway station.
Thousands of Ukrainian troops crossed over into Kursk more than a week ago, launching the most significant advance into Russian territory since the start of full-scale war nearly two-and-a-half years ago. Moscow scrambled to respond, sending reinforcements to the border as Kyiv’s fighters quickly advanced, with the town of Sudzha one of the first targets.
Footage posted by Ukrainian activist and fundraiser Serhii Sternenko last week purportedly showed Kyiv’s drones striking a Russian train in „used for military logistics“, supplying Russian troops battling in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region.
