Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia has deployed nearly 50,000 troops to Kursk, the southern Russian region where Kyiv launched its surprise counteroffensive in the summer.

Ukraine's president says the incursion is limiting the forces Moscow can deploy inside his country.

Ukrainian forces repelled a major Russian assault in Russia's Kursk Oblast and neutralised a Russian assault battalion. Source: Anastasiia Blyshchyk, spokeswoman for the 47th Separate Mechanised Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,

Russian forces attempted to storm Ukrainian positions but suffered significant losses, including the destruction of ten armored vehicles, press officer Anastasiia Blyshchyk of the 47th OMBr said. Read also: Ukrainian forces destroy Russian assault troops at river crossing in Kursk Oblast - video She added that three enemy armored personnel

Ukraine said on Monday (November 11) its hard-pressed military was battling 50,000 troops in Russia's Kursk region to its north. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg tells us more.