Fierce fighting in Russia as Ukrainian forces attempt to seize more territory

Matthew Savill, the director of military sciences at the defence thinktank RUSI in London, said it was too early to say whether Ukraine’s Kursk attack was a brilliant stratagem that wrong-footed the Russians or a disastrous error that would ultimately wipe out its best forces. Russian media said the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had ordered his generals to remove Ukrainian troops by 1 October.