The daring campaign Ukraine launched last summer to seize and occupy Russian territory appears to be nearing an end.

Without confirming the withdrawal with a statement, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces posted the latest battlefield maps on social media, which showed a complete retreat from Sudzha.

Russia battled on Sunday to drive the last Ukrainian soldiers from western Russia, Russian officials said, after a seven-month incursion by Ukraine that aimed to distract Moscow's forces, gain a bargaining chip and rile President Vladimir Putin.

President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin both claimed that Ukrainian forces were surrounded. Ukraine’s top military commander vowed to “hold the line.”

Kostенко explained that Ukraine's position in Kursk Oblast had always been difficult, becoming even more so months after Ukrainian forces initially captured parts of the territory. Roman Kostensko Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security,

Analyst David Axe described the situation of Ukrainian armed forces in the Kursk region on the Forbes portal. According to his calculations, they may have lost about 500 vehicles and artillery pieces there.