Soldiers of the 6th Regiment of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have captured a village in Russia's Kursk Oblast. Source: press service for the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces;

Six people, including one child, were killed on Friday in a Ukrainian missile attack on the town of Rylsk in Russia's Kursk region, the acting governor, Alexander Khinshtein, said.

Aleksandr Khinshtein, the acting governor of Kursk Oblast, has reported another strike on the city of Lgov in the region. He has stated there is currently no information about casualties or significant damage.

Residents of the Kursk region in Russia reported explosions in the city of Lgov on the evening of Monday, December 30, according to the acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein. Khinshtein has traditionally claimed that the attack came from Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said at the weekend that Russia was using North Korean troops in significant numbers for the first time to conduct assaults in Kursk region in southern Russia. On Monday,