Combat engineers breached Russian defences along the border last week as Moscow mounted its first significant attempt to claw back territory seized by Kyiv in its surprise incursion.
The fresh offensive is about 20 miles west of the 820-square kilometre area that Western officials last week said Ukraine was successfully occupying.
Soon after breaking across the frontier, [Ukrainian troops](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/russia-ukraine-war/) advanced several miles beyond the village of Novyi Put, where they entered the Glushkovsky district of Kursk.
Ukrainian tanks rolled up to the southern outskirts of the Russian garrison town of Veseloe, about three miles north of the Ukrainian border.
The Ukrainian Centre for Defence Strategies said in a report on Sunday that Kyiv’s forces had “practically taken control of it”.
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***The Telegraph reports:***
Ukrainian forces have captured a garrison town as they opened a new front in the southern Russian region of [Kursk](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/09/14/russia-ukraine-zelensky-putin-war-latest-news7/).
Combat engineers breached Russian defences along the border last week as Moscow mounted its first significant attempt to claw back territory seized by Kyiv in its surprise incursion.
The fresh offensive is about 20 miles west of the 820-square kilometre area that Western officials last week said Ukraine was successfully occupying.
Soon after breaking across the frontier, [Ukrainian troops](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/russia-ukraine-war/) advanced several miles beyond the village of Novyi Put, where they entered the Glushkovsky district of Kursk.
Ukrainian tanks rolled up to the southern outskirts of the Russian garrison town of Veseloe, about three miles north of the Ukrainian border.
The Ukrainian Centre for Defence Strategies said in a report on Sunday that Kyiv’s forces had “practically taken control of it”.
On Sunday, the Ukrainian Khorne Group shared footage on social media of a purported strike on a Russian military base using a [US-provided JDAM satellite-guided bomb](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/09/13/starmer-washington-no-biden-approval-ukraine-storm-shadow/).
**Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/09/16/ukraine-captures-garrison-town-kursk-russia/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/09/16/ukraine-captures-garrison-town-kursk-russia/)