Wars in the World

Turkish security forces have “neutralized” 17 PKK/YPG terrorists in recent operations in northern Iraq and northern Syria, as reported by Anadolu Agency, citing the Turkish National Defense Ministry.

According to the ministry, 15 of the terrorists were targeted in the Gara and Metina regions, as well as in the Claw-Lock operation zone of northern Iraq. The remaining two terrorists were neutralized in Manbij, northern Syria.

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Russia has launched the largest attack on Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine’s Air Force reported on Aug. 26.

Seven people were killed and 47 were injured, according to the State Emergency Service.

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Russia is more focused on pushing towards Porkrovsk in the east, as Ukrainian forces withdrew from some positions in the area.

The Russian military has recently moved units from at least one airborne (VDV) regiment from the western Zaporizhzhia region to the Kursk region in response to Ukraine’s recent incursion. This move, which also includes redeployments from the northern Kharkiv region, is seen as an effort to stabilise the front lines and improve command and control over Russian conscripts.

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Ukraine’s top commander has said Kyiv’s forces control 1,000 sq km of Russian territory as they press their biggest cross-border incursion in two-and-a-half years of full-scale war.

Commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said Ukraine continued to “conduct an offensive operation in the Kursk region” seven days after it began.

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Russia launched dozens of missiles at cities across Ukraine on Monday in an attack that killed at least 31 people and smashed into a children’s hospital in Kyiv, officials said. The rare day-time Russian barrage came as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due in Warsaw, the Polish government said, before he flies to a NATO summit in Washington.

Explosions rang out and black smoke could be seen rising from the centre of Kyiv, AFP journalists reported.

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