Photo: On the map of Radio Liberty ... the district center - the village of Glushkovo with a population of about five thousand people. Photo: The area of fighting in the Kursk region continues ...

Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion, health, food safety and population. She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south ...

as a map shows the latest state of play in the area. Kyiv launched a surprise push into the Russian oblast administrative division on August 6, with Ukraine claiming that it had quickly captured ...

The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to expand the area ... maps show that the main increase in combat zones occurred on the borders of the Sudzha and Belaya districts, as well as Korenevo and ...