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The settlement witnessed fighting in 2024 and in 2025 as part of the Kursk offensive of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [4] [5] In January 2025, Russian officials accused Ukrainian forces of torturing and later killing 22 civilians in the village [6] "Russian officials are accusing Ukrainian troops of killing civilians in the Kursk region, citing two videos of human remains.
On 16 August, Putin's aide Nikolai Patrushev claimed, without providing evidence, that the invasion of Kursk Oblast was "planned with the participation of NATO and Western special services", [236] calling the offensive "a desperate act, driven by the impending collapse of the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv." [237] [better source needed]
During the Russo-Ukrainian War and Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine occupied parts of Russia's Kursk Oblast. It was the first time since World War II that Russian territory was occupied by a foreign military. Ukrainian forces occupied several settlements, including the town of Sudzha.
Eastern Front; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming Poznań, 1945; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk, 1943; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, 1943; German Einsatzgruppen death squad murdering Jews in Ukraine, 1942; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945; Soviet troops at the Battle ...
The village is located in the southwestern part of the Central Russian Upland, in the forest steppe zone, on the right bank of the Snagosti River, 3.55 kilometres (2.21 mi) of the Russian-Ukrainian border, 97.25 kilometres (60.43 mi) southwest of Kursk, about 17 kilometres (11 mi) northwest of the town of Sudzha, the administrative centre of the district. [4]
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The Germans hoped to weaken the Soviet offensive potential for the summer of 1943 by cutting off a large number of forces that they anticipated would be in the Kursk salient. [20] The Kursk salient or bulge was 250 kilometres (160 mi) long from north to south and 160 kilometres (99 mi) from east to west. [21]
The channel also posted a video calling for people not to participate in the 2024 Russian presidential election. Former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, who lives in Ukraine, claimed that the Freedom of Russia Legion, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Sibir Battalion entered Kursk and Belgorod Oblasts "as part of a joint operation." [19]