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BBC News (7 January 2025)

Will Vernon, Amy Walker, Patrick Jackson

Fierce fighting is under way for a second day in Russia's Kursk region after Ukraine launched a counter-attack on Sunday.

Moscow said it had met the attack with artillery and air power and on Monday stated that Russian troops thwarted a breakthrough attempt by Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Kursk operation, launched with a mass incursion in August, had established a buffer zone which prevents Russian forces from being deployed in key areas of the front in eastern Ukraine.

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