The governor of Russia’s Kursk region has reported a new Ukrainian attack on a local town, escalating tensions in the ongoing conflict. Details about the strike's impact remain limited, but it underscores the intensification of cross-border hostilities.

A total of 138 combat clashes have occurred on the battlefield over the past day, with the Russians conducting 89 assaults on the Pokrovsk, Kurakhove and Vremivka fronts. Ten battles have taken place in Russia's Kursk Oblast.

Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrainian troops are bloodied by daily combat losses and demoralized by the rising risk of defeat in Kursk.

On January 2, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a precision strike on the command post of the Russian army in the settlement of Mariino, located in the Kursk region, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

He emphasized that Ukraine’s military actions forced Russia to maintain a significant grouping of troops on its territory and to redeploy reserves from other directions. Additionally, Ukrainian forces significantly boosted the exchange fund by capturing over 700 enemy soldiers in Kursk Oblast,

Six people, including one child, were killed on Friday in a Ukrainian missile attack on the town of Rylsk in Russia's Kursk region, the acting governor, Alexander Khinshtein, said.