A total of 96 combat clashes have taken place on the battlefield over the course of 5 March. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has described the situation on the Kursk and Toretsk fronts as the hottest.

Russia on Saturday said its troops had retaken three villages seized by Ukraine in the Kursk border region, where Kyiv's forces have been losing ground recently. The Russian Defense Ministry announced the recapture of Viktorovka,

Ukraine’s seven-month-old sortie into the Russian province of Kursk is on the verge of collapse after Moscow’s troops broke through Kyiv’s defensive line near the Russian town of Sudzha on Friday, The Post has learned.

A total of 146 combat clashes have occurred on the battlefield over the past day, with the Russians most frequently attacking on the Toretsk front and in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook,

Ukrainian forces carried out precision strikes against a Russian command post in the occupied town of Oleshky in Ukraine's Kherson Oblast and a stronghold in Russia's Kursk Oblast on March 5, the Ukrainian military said on March 7.

On March 5, the Ukrainian Air Force on March 5 carried out precision strikes on Russian army command points in the Kherson and Kursk regions, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.