Voices from Sudzha, the Russian town under Ukrainian control | VOANews

The Russian town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region became the biggest town to have been captured by Ukraine’s armed forces on Russian territory.

A VOA reporter was one of the first to visit the city and talk to locals.

Ukraine launched a major cross-border incursion into the Kursk region on August 6, while Russian troops keep pressing towards the strategic hub of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region is legitimate and covered by Kyiv's right to self-defense, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told German weekly Welt am Sonntag in his first reaction to the advance into Russian territory.

Russia has called the Kursk operation a "major provocation" and said it would retaliate.

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