August 21, 2024 6:48 PM

Kursk incursion boosts Ukrainian morale after grim year

For Kyiv-area resident Olha Pavlovska, who huddles with her neighbours every week to discuss the often grim news from the front, Ukraine's shock incursion into Russia's Kursk region this month offered a rare moment of hope. "This was a very brave and important step ... for keeping up morale in society," said Pavlovska, 51, speaking outside St Michael's Cathedral in the centre of Kyiv. Ukrainian leaders have cast the Aug. 6 attack, the biggest invasion of Russia since World War Two, as proof th...