The Latest Breaking News from Kursk

Ukrainian official says incursion into Russian territory aims to push Moscow to enter ‘fair negotiation process’.

With its daring incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, Ukraine has attempted to reshuffle the cards in the conflict after months of paralysis in its eastern Donbas region. It exposed Russian military weaknesses and could strengthen Ukraine’s position at the negotiating table.

Ukraine said it now controlled dozens of settlements and Sudzha, a town eight kilometres (five miles) from the border.

Secrecy was key in attack that has opened a new front in the war and left Russians looking leaden-footed

While Belarus’s Lukashenko has commented on the cross-border attacks, Central Asian nations stay mum.

The UK’s Ministry of Defence said Russian forces were initially disorganised following Ukraine’s lightning offensive

The Russian army closed in on the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk on Friday, a key logistics hub through which supplies are transported to troops and towns on the eastern front, while Kyiv urged civilians living there to speed up evacuations. In the meantime, Ukraine said its forces have continued…

A daring Ukrainian military push into Russia’s Kursk region has seen Kyiv’s forces seize scores of villages, attack air bases and force the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians in what has become the largest attack on the country since World War II

As the war enters its 903rd day, these are the main developments.