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According to a report by Reference News citing AFP in Kiev on August 25, more than two weeks after the offensive was launched,Ukrainian President Zelensky announced on the 25th that "progress" had been made again in the Kursk region and two villages had been captured.

According to reports, Zelensky said in his daily briefing:"I just spoke to Commander-in-Chief Sersky and our troops have made some progress in the Kursk region. We control two villages." He also said that fighting was "going on in another village."

It is reported that the Ukrainian army launched a large-scale offensive against Russia's Kursk Oblast earlier this month, and there is no sign of easing in the fighting between Russia and Ukraine in Kursk and other fronts.

According to a report by Russian News Agency on August 26,Major General Araudinov, deputy director of the Russian Armed Forces' Main Military and Political Directorate, said that the Russian army dominated the entire combat contact line and made significant progress in the Donetsk direction.

He had earlier said that the "Akhmat" special forces had gained a foothold in the Kursk direction and were approaching the enemy in certain areas.

He said: "As for the other direction, that is, the Donetsk direction, our army has also made very significant progress. In the past few days, all our troops have been advancing steadily... It can be said with certainty that Russia now dominates the entire combat contact line."

Araudinov also said that despite the Ukrainian army's recent "breakthrough" in the Kursk direction and attempts to advance, the enemy is being destroyed and will continue to be destroyed.

According to CCTV News, recently, the US media "New York Times" quoted multiple sources as saying that after the Ukrainian army attacked Russia's Kursk Oblast, the United States and Britain provided Ukraine with satellite images and other information to help Ukraine detect the situation of Russian reinforcements.

The report said: "A few days after the offensive, the United States and Britain provided Ukraine with satellite images and other information about the Kursk region so that commanders could better understand the deployment of Russian reinforcements and assess whether Russian reinforcements were likely to attack Ukrainian forces or cut off their retreat back to Ukraine."

The United States, Britain and Ukraine have not yet responded to this report.

On August 25, local time, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian army continued to attack the Ukrainian army's manpower and equipment in multiple directions. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces issued a war report saying that the situation in the Pokrovsk direction remained the most tense.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the 25th that over the past day, the Russian armed forces' army groups attacked the Ukrainian army's manpower and equipment in multiple directions and destroyed a temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries. The Russian air defense forces shot down 8 US-made HIMARS rockets and 41 drones.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces issued a battle report on the same day, saying that as of that afternoon, 68 battles had taken place in the front-line areas. The situation in the Pokrovsk direction was most tense, and fighting was still continuing in many areas.

In the Kursk direction, the Russian Ministry of Defense issued a statement on the 25th saying that Russian armed forces continued to repel Ukrainian armed forces in the Kursk direction. The Russian army continued to carry out reconnaissance and search operations to identify and eliminate Ukrainian sabotage groups attempting to penetrate deep into Russian territory.

Ukrainian President Zelensky said on the 25th that the Ukrainian army advanced 1 to 3 kilometers in the Kursk region that day and controlled two settlements.

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