Russia is pressing an attack in Corsak amid the ceasefire talks with us

Moscow presses its attack to restore full lands The Russian Cursk region of Ukraine As negotiations between the White House and the Kremlin continue to stop the shooting of a three -year war.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said on Saturday that its forces have recovered two villages outside its blacks, which is the main Russian city that Ukraine occupied since a surprise in Russia last summer, but it seems that it had it. I lost in recent days. Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment on the latest claim to Russia and have not confirmed a retreat from its forces from Sudzha.

The apparent progress in Moscow came on the Cursk front a day after President Vladimir F. Putin from Russia on the Ukrainian forces, which are still fighting in the region To put their arms. Mr. Putin said he would save their lives if they surrender.

The Russian leader said that the Ukrainian forces are surrounded in the region, which is a confirmation that President Trump repeated in a message about the social truth. But the Ukraine army said on Friday that “there is no threat to encourage our units,” describing the proposal “false and condemned by the Russians.”

Repeat the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry S. Peskov, Mr. Putin asked in the comments on the government news agency Tass on Saturday.

“It is still good,” said Mr. Peskov.

Russia and Ukraine were intensifying their attacks. Overnight, Russia launched the ISKAnder-M ballistic missiles and 178 drones in Ukrainian cities, the Ukrainian authorities said. The missiles struck a residential area in the hometown of Kryvyi Rih, and the birth of Volodemyr Zelensky in central Ukraine, wounding 14 people, including two children, according to the local authorities.

It was the most famous fighting in the Corsak region, as Russia hoped to get the Ukrainian forces out of its territory, especially given the possibility of a ceasefire. As the battlefield in Corsak turned, Prime Minister Kiir Starmer was from Britain Hold a virtual summit Saturday of global leaders committed to the help of Ukraine.

While Ukraine retreated from a temporary Cut American military aid Intelligence assistance last week, Moscow climbed its efforts to restore Kursk, and the escalation of attacks in the region and on the side of Ukraine from the border in the Sumi region.

Russian attacks included attempts to enter Ukrainian lands using small sabotage groups and increase bombing of borders and the regional capital, Sumi City, according to Ukrainian officials. Officials said that a total of 161 explosions were reported in the region last night.

They said Shahid drones also targeted a critical infrastructure in Sumi, which led to power outages and water supplies.

Andre Dimchinko, a spokesman for the border border guards service in Ukraine, said in an interview on a phone that small attacks from Russia entered the northern border region in Ukraine on Friday but were expelled.

“Their mission is to penetrate and drop their path, but they have not yet succeeded,” said Mr. Demchenko.

He said that the Russian forces tried to use armored vehicles and three vehicles for all terrain to penetrate on the border, but they did not succeed. He said that in their recent attempt, the soldiers tried to enter the Ukrainian lands on foot into small groups of up to five soldiers.

The Russian Ministry of Defense also said that the Russian engineering forces had begun to remove the areas that their forces recovered in the Kursk region near the border with Ukraine.