According to documents obtained by the Ukrainian military and shared with The Guardian, Russia's military command foresaw Ukraine's August 6 incursion and failed to act on warnings from those in the region. Newsweek has contacted the Russian Ministry of Defense for comment on the reports.

Russia said on Friday that its army would regain control of its Kursk region "in a timely manner", declining to say how soon this could be achieved. Ukraine on Aug. 6 launched the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War Two,

Russian forces are transferring equipment from the Kherson direction to the Kursk region. Before this, they repair it in Crimea, according to the Telegram channel of the partisan movement ATESH. "Agents tracked the movement of weapons,