Russia says its troops are battling to push Ukrainian forces back a cross-border incursion in Kursk

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry says the country’s troops are fighting Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region on the third day of one of the largest cross-border incursions of the war. A ministry statement on Thursday said the Russian military and border guards have blocked Ukrainian forces from advancing deeper into the Kursk region in southwest Russia. Authorities in Kyiv have refrained from comment on the incursion. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke in a video address to the nation late on Thursday. He made no reference to the fighting in Kursk but emphasized that “Russia brought the war to our land, and it should feel what it has done.”