Russia and Ukraine have stepped up attacks against one another. In recent moves, Russia conducted a major offensive in the western Russian region of Kursk, and Ukraine launched massive drone attacks on Russian cities, including Moscow.



Russia's defense ministry said on Tuesday that Russian forces had taken back 12 settlements and taken control of more than 100 square kilometers of Kursk region, which Ukraine had seized during its cross-border incursion.



Ukraine's General Staff of the Armed Forces said on Saturday that Russian special forces were advancing inside a gas pipeline toward the city of Sudzha in Kursk. The move is seen as part of Russia's intensifying efforts to retake control of the province.



Russia's defense ministry said on Tuesday that its forces had detected and downed 343 unmanned aerial vehicles during Ukraine's drone attacks in several locations in Russia.



Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 74 drones were heading to the city, calling this the largest-scale attack on the capital. Three people were killed and more than 10 people were wounded in Moscow Province in the attack.



The head of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council's Center for Countering Disinformation, Andriy Kovalenko, said it was an additional signal for Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said Putin should also be interested in a ceasefire in the airspace. An aerial ceasefire would ban missile and drone attacks.



The Ukrainian Air Force said on Tuesday that it shot down a ballistic missile and 79 drones from Russia.