Over the past day, 176 combat engagements were registered along the frontline. The Russians launched 45 air strikes on the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that some 38,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded fighting in Russia's western Kursk region since August.