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A Russian soldier was recorded firing a grenade launcher at a residential building in Sudzha, Kursk Oblast. The shot narrowly missed the Orthodox Holy Trinity Church and struck a residential building.

Sudzha, Kursk Oblast
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Kyiv Independent Institute for the Study of War

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A Russian soldier was seen firing a grenade launcher at a residential building in Sudzha, a border town in Russia's Kursk Oblast retaken from Ukrainian forces earlier this year

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

The shot narrowly missed the church and struck a residential building

Ukrainian forces struck a Russian duty station near Rylsk, Kursk Oblast during a HIMARS strike

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Extracted: 2026-03-01T19:06:23.595Z

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