Moscow Moves Troops Away From Front Lines As Ukrainian Forces Suddenly Push Deeper Into Russia

From the Daily Caller News Foundation

Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly shifting troops out of Ukrainian territory to confront Ukrainian forces that have made a sudden push into Russian territory, according to multiple reports.

Ukraine’s top commander claimed Monday that troops have now seized roughly 400 miles of the Kursk region in Western Russia, in an offensive that began last week, according to several reports. The incursion marks the first time Ukrainian forces have broken through into Russian territory, an operation which reportedly caught the Biden administration off guard, U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal.

“We are advancing in the Kursk region, one to two kilometers in various areas since the beginning of the day,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement on Tuesday. “We have captured more than 100 Russian servicemen during this period.”

Ukraine has sent over 1,000 troops to Kursk for the offensive, Russia’s top general estimated, but U.S. officials told The New York Times the number was likely several thousand. It was unclear how many Russian troops were being pulled away from the frontline to address the incursion, the officials said.

Russia’s lines surrounding Kursk had gaps that allowed Ukrainian troops to stage the operation, something Kyiv had been hoping to do for some time, one U.S. official told the WSJ.

The White House said on Tuesday that it was uninformed of Ukraine’s plans to launch the incursion last week and was not involved in the effort.

“We had nothing to do with this. This is something for the Ukrainians to speak to their military operations,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday. “But we have no involvement.”

Ukraine’s incursion is a departure from the country’s traditionally defensive posture against Russia since Moscow initiated war in 2022. Ukrainian forces are receiving weapons aid from a host of Western countries, but the country’s manpower problems have created challenges for its odds of a military victory against Russia, which has a higher manpower advantage and a seemingly sustainable defense industrial complex.

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhiy Tykhi told reporters on Monday that the objective wasn’t to occupy Russian territory, but rather to “protect the territory of Ukraine from Russian attacks,” according to the WSJ.

“The sooner the Russian Federation agrees to restore a just peace…the sooner the raids of the Ukrainian defense forces on the territory of the Russian Federation will stop,” Tykhi said.

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AI Drone ‘Swarms’ Unleashed On Ukraine Battlefields, Marking New Era Of Warfare

Published on September 2, 2025

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By Wallace White

Artificial intelligence-powered drones are making their first appearances on the battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine war as warfare creeps closer to full automation.

In bombardments on Russian targets in the past year, Ukrainian drones acting in concert were able to independently determine where to strike without human input.

It’s the first battlefield use of AI “swarm” technology in a real-world environment, a senior Ukrainian official and Swarmer, the company who makes the software, told the Wall Street Journal in a Tuesday report. While drones have increasingly defined modern battlefields, swarms until now had been confined to testing rather than combat.

“You set the target and the drones do the rest,” Swarmer Chief Executive Serhii Kupriienko told the WSJ. “They work together, they adapt.”

So far, the Swarmer technology has been used hundreds of times to target Russia assets, but was first used a year ago to lay mines on the front, the Ukrainian official told the WSJ. The software has been tested with up to 25 drones at once, but is usually utilized with only three.

Kupriienko told the WSJ that he was preparing to test up to 100 drones at once with the linking software.

A common arrangement used on the battlefield includes one reconnaissance drone to scout out the target and two explosive drones delivering the payload on target, the official told the WSJ.

While Western nations such as the U.S., France and the United Kingdom are also pursuing drone swarm technology, they have not deployed swarm technology on the battlefield the way Ukraine has, according to the WSJ. Currently, autonomous weapons are not regulated by any international authority or binding agreement, but ethical concerns around the technology has led many to call for increased regulation of weapons like the Swarmer system.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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Trump Pentagon Reportedly Blocking Ukraine From Firing Western Missiles Deep Into Russia

Published on August 25, 2025

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By Harold Hutchison

The Department of Defense has spent months blocking the Ukrainian military from using American and British-made missiles to hit targets deep inside Russia, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing unnamed U.S. officials.

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eldridge Colby reportedly designed the procedure to review requests to carry out the long-range strikes with weapons that are either of U.S. origin or that require American intelligence or use components provided by the U.S., according to the WSJ. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reportedly has the final say on whether Ukrainian forces can use the MGM-140 ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) to hit targets in Russia.

The reported blocks on missile strikes coincides with a Trump administration effort to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. A Pentagon spokesperson declined to comment further on the matter.

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The Biden administration allowed Ukraine to carry out strikes with ATACMS in November, weeks after President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the New York Times reported. Trump criticized the move during a December interview with Time magazine.

“It’s crazy what’s taking place. It’s crazy,” Trump said. “I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia. Why are we doing that? We’re just escalating this war and making it worse. That should not have been allowed to be done.”

Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska on Aug. 15 for a summit meeting during which Trump sought to secure a cease-fire in Russia’s war with Ukraine. As Trump greeted Putin, a B-2A Spirit stealth bomber and several fighters carried out a flyover of Elmendorf Air Force Base.

Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and major European leaders on Aug. 18 to update them on the summit.

In July, Trump reached an agreement with NATO where members of the alliance would purchase weapons, including MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missiles, and donate them to Ukraine.