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For the full details of upgrading from Homeworks Illumination to Homeworks QSX, please see the full application note: Application Note 840

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One of the largest differences between Illumination and QSX is the amount of links on the processor. QSX has condensed quite a few of the links used from 9 separate links down to 2. Primarily those links will consist of Wired QS devices, and Wireless RF devices. Below is a table showing the links from Illumination, and which link they'd go to within QSX.

Another key difference is the variation of processor models. Illumination had multiple processor models with some of the 'extra' equipment built into the processor such as an H48 board or D48 board. There were also three 'main' models for the Illumination system: Series 4, Series 8, and RF. QSX primarily only has 3 different processors: A 1 link, a 2 link, and a hybrid wireless processor.

When it comes to wiring processors together, Homeworks Illumination had a dedicated link for Processor-to-Processor communication. This would explain any extra RS-232 wires between processor locations during the upgrade if they had multiple processors. QSX no longer requires this and will communicate with other processors directly through the network. For more details on this, please see our QSX Networking Guide: HWKS 16.0+ NETWORKING GUIDE APP NOTE (048760) (lutron.com)  

IMPORTANT NOTE : Most of the Illumination devices were powered off of 15vdc power supplies. Homeworks QSX devices are powered off of 24vdc power supplies.  Do not attempt to reuse any Homeworks Illumination power supplies  except the transformer for the MI/SPI. 

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As mentioned, the Illumination processors had various links for multiple purposes. We'll describe each link in this section, what devices used that link, and how to best convert the link to QSX. Below is a breakdown of the types of links in a table used in Series 4, Series 8, and RF processors:

Link 1 is commonly referred to as the Panel Link. This would go to any panels with RPMs and connect to their MIs.

This link would be converted and merged into a QS link of the QSX system and use the new Panel Link Translator in place of the MI in a near 1-to-1 replacement. 

Note : If replacing an MI with the Panel Link Translator, ensure that you have it set to Hi-1 to communicate with the RPMs.

Note : When using RPMs in QSX, we highly recommend ensuring they do not have the White Labels, indicating they were produced  before 2003. The reason for this is to avoid any strange behavior within the system, and to avoid complete LED incompatibility.

Mentioned earlier in the article, Link 2 is used for cross-processor communication when using multiple processors.

QSX processors can now communicate with each other via the network, so this RS-232 connection will not be needed.

Link 3 was an RS-232 port connection for integrators to use. 

For QSX, RS-232 integrations can still be used with a third-party device that can convert Ethernet to RS-232. The QSX processor can then send ethernet commands to the third-party device to the integrator.

Note: This method will  only allow commands to be  sent ; the QSX processors are not able to  receive commands back from the integrators with this method. If sending  and receiving messages are required, LEAP integration would be required. Please see our Leap Integration Article for more detail: Lutron's LEAP API Integration Protocol | Lutron  

These links are configurable for various devices on an Illumination system. Commonly they will host any of the following devices: Legacy Keypads, Wired Dimmer Boards (H48), Wired Vareo Dimmer Boards (D48), Legacy Grafik Eye Devices, and/or Sivoia QED Shades (Q96). Below is a breakdown table of the recommended upgrades:

Legacy Keypads can keep their current wiring, but be merged into a QS link. The keypads themselves would need to be replaced with any of our currently available keypads compatible with QSX, however the Palladiom and SeeTouch keypads would ensure no backbox changes would need to be done.

Vareo and Maestro devices  wired to an H48 or D48 board; the boards would be removed completely, and the dimmers/switches would need to be replaced with the HQRD/HQRA equivalent models or upgraded to the HRST Sunnata models. The wiring should be almost 1-to-1, with the exception of capping off and not using the low voltage white and purple wires in each location.  See below for a table of models and their current-day counterparts:

Note : If upgrading to Sunnata devices, ensure any 3-way or multilocation installations have the HRST-PRO or HRST-8ANS on the  load side of the installation. 

Legacy Grafik Eye devices will need to be replaced with their current-day equivalent Grafik Eye QS devices (QSGR or QSGRJ models). These would be a direct, 1-to-1 replacement.

Sivoia QED Shades and their  Q96 Interface would need to be replaced with a Sivoia QS Shade and their power supplies. For full details on this upgrade, please see our Upgrading Your Shades article:  Upgrading Your Shades from QED to QS Motor Systems | Lutron  

All RF devices from Illumination will need to be replaced with the current equivalents. Legacy RF devices are unable to communicate with our current repeaters, hybrid processors, or RF devices. Please see the table below for a list of all RF models and their current-day equivalents:

This link was an Ethernet port used for the initial setup and integration via third-party devices. QSX processors will use their onboard ethernet ports to communicate with other processors on the network, as well as allow third-party integration to communicate as well.

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In Kursk, Ukraine soldiers find disillusioned Russians and inexperienced troops

Ukrainian officials claim to have seized more than 1,200 square km of russia's kursk region.

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When Ukrainian troops started massing in the Sumy region in the country's northeast during the early weeks of the summer, it was clear some kind of operation was in the works, a Ukrainian soldier recently told CBC News.

But he didn't realize his country was on the brink of a large, secretive and carefully planned incursion into Russia. 

"We didn't know, but we were feeling something special about the situation," said the soldier, who wanted only to be identified as Wolverine, in an exclusive interview with CBC.

Over the past two weeks, Ukraine says its troops have managed to seize more than 1,200 square kilometres of Russia's Kursk region, including dozens of small settlements, in what is the first invasion of Russian territory since the Second World War.

The military manoeuvre is widely seen by analysts as both a bold attempt to put additional pressure on Russia by bringing the 2 1/2-year war closer to home and a major gamble at a time when Ukraine is fighting to hold off Russian gains in the Donetsk region.

While Russia is still advancing in the south, the incursion into Kursk has shifted the momentum and boosted Ukraine's mood, Wolverine believes.

"It's good for ... our morale, obviously," he said.

Ukrainian soldier says Russian civilians feel betrayed by their government

Wolverine, who spoke to CBC via Zoom from the Sumy region after returning from Kursk for a quick trip to resupply, would not comment on the current battlefield conditions, but confirmed he and his unit entered Kursk on Aug. 7. 

"We don't need any foreign territories," he said. "This operation is not only in Kursk, but about [helping] our brothers and sisters who are defending our territory from Kharkiv to Zhaporizhzhia and Kherson."

Surprise attack 

When thousands of Ukrainian troops stormed into Kursk on Aug. 6, they appeared to meet little resistance. Ukrainian officials released videos of Russian soldiers waving white flags in surrender. 

But in recent days, the battle has intensified. Russia has released its own images, showing a destroyed Ukrainian military convoy (which included armoured personnel carriers manufactured by Roshel, a Canadian company based in Mississauga, Ont.). 

Back in Ukraine, officials admit the situation around the city of  Pokrovsk  in Donetsk is especially difficult, as Russian troops threaten to capture a key logistics hub for Ukraine. This week, families with children still residing in the city have been urged to leave. 

In the spring, the  Ukrainian city of Kharkiv came under regular attack from Russian missiles and glide bombs, and in May, Russian troops seized the Ukrainian border town of Vovchansk , leading hundreds to be evacuated under shelling and the buzz of drones overhead. 

That same month, the head of Ukraine's military intelligence agency told the New York Times  he expected Russia to launch an offensive toward the Sumy region in the coming days. 

But it was Ukraine that launched an attack over the border nearly three months later.

During his nightly address on Sunday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the operation in Russia's Kursk region aims to create a buffer zone on the "aggressor's territory."

Russian President Vladimir Putin previously said Russia's incursion into the  Kharkiv region in May  was an attempt to create a buffer zone to protect Russian communities and military positions. 

Russia's response

Putin has said little about Ukraine's attack on Kursk, but during a visit to the town of Beslan in North Ossetia on Tuesday to honour the victims of the 2004 school siege, he compared Ukrainian troops to terrorists. 

"We will punish the criminals. There can be no doubt about this," he said. Officials also announced the formation of three new military groups to bolster security in the area.

Russian officials have said more than 120,000 people have left the Kursk region, and state media outlet TASS has reported that more than 30 civilians have been killed since Ukraine's attack.

Wolverine told CBC that during his time in Kursk, he heard Russian citizens express anger at their own authorities.

"They speak about betrayal from the Russian government," he said. "They did not declare evacuation and immediately turned off water and light, so they [created] unbearable living conditions."

He provided CBC with a short edited video taken with the body camera he was wearing when he spoke to residents in a rural Russian village. At least one woman was in tears while another man complained they had been abandoned by the Russian authorities. The man said two buses had come to evacuate the elderly and frail but left other residents behind. 

CBC was unable to verify the video or the statements made by the residents, who were likely unaware they were being recorded.

Wolverine says his unit encountered 10 Russian soldiers who surrendered, and it was clear the troops positioned in Russia along the border near Kursk weren't as "high quality" as the forces Ukraine has been facing elsewhere along the front line. 

While there were some experienced units, including fighters from Chechnya, there were also many conscripts: young men completing their mandatory military service.

On Russian social media networks, there are posts from relatives looking for their sons who were stationed in Kursk and haven't been heard from since Ukraine's attack.

Inexperienced conscripts

A freelance journalist working for CBC was granted access to a prison in the Sumy region where Russian prisoners of war are being held. He, along with other journalists, was permitted to speak with the more than 20 men held in three separate cells as long as there weren't any questions that could compromise the security of Ukrainian forces in Kursk.

The prisoners' freedom hinges on being swapped in an exchange with Ukrainian soldiers captured in Russia. CBC is not identifying any of the men who consented to speak. 

One 19-year-old said he was sent to Russia's border region in May and wasn't given proper training, including when it came to fighting and firing a weapon.

He said he and others were sheltering in a building from the rain when a Ukrainian grenade flew through a window. Moments later, he and 27 others surrendered to the Ukrainian soldiers outside. 

"We started shouting that there are conscripts here, don't shoot," he said.

Another 22-year-old conscript said Ukrainian troops started storming his position on Aug. 7. He and a few others managed to spend the night hiding in a trench, but the next day, he was hit by a grenade and later captured. 

As he spoke, he lay on the lower half of a bunk bed, shrapnel still embedded in both of his legs.

He is from St. Petersburg and was conscripted in October. 

"We were told that we would not take part in hostilities," he said. "We understood that anything was possible, but we did not think that our day would end with us being prisoners of war in another country."

Russian PoW told he wouldn't 'take part in hostilities' when he was conscripted

One of the oldest prisoners in the group was a 54-year-old who originally worked as a coal miner in Luhansk in Eastern Ukraine but moved to Moscow in 2014 after the war began in the Donbas.

He ended up being granted Russian citizenship and signed a military contract. Throughout the war, he had been stationed in Sevastopol, Crimea and Kherson but was redeployed to Kursk on Aug. 5 to help strengthen security along the border. 

Like the rest of the soldiers who spoke in the cell, he was shocked by the scale of the Ukrainian offensive. 

He said when he arrived at his position, he was told everything would be quiet. Hours later, thousands of Ukrainian troops started pouring over the border. 

"No one could even predict that there would be an attack … in such a large area and [with] so much power ."

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Briar Stewart is CBC's Russia correspondent, based in London. During her nearly two decades with CBC, she has reported across Canada and internationally. She can be reached at [email protected] or on X @briarstewart.

With files from Corinne Seminoff, Halyna Yakushko, Aleksandr Yanovsky and Reuters

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Ukraine gambled on an incursion deep into Russian territory. The bold move changed the battlefield

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that Ukraine is reaching its “strategic goal” in the offensive in the Kursk region. Zelenskyy said in a nightly address that the advance had significantly increased the “exchange fund” for Ukraine.

A Ukrainian armoured military vehicle travels near the Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

An elderly woman walks along the road near the Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A Ukrainian tank passes by a burning car near the Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

This image released by Maxar Technologies shows defensive trenches that have been built near Lgov and parallel to the E38 highway, west of Kursk, Russia, Monday Aug. 12, 2024. (Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies via AP)

A Ukrainian armoured military vehicle travels past a burned car near the Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

This image released by Maxar Technologies shows a trench being built southeast of Lgov, west of Kursk, Russia, Monday Aug. 12, 2024. (Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Ukrainian servicemen ride atop on armoured vehicle at the Russian-Ukrainian border in Sumy region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Serhii Zaichenko, 63, school guard shows his school which was heavily damaged after Russian airstrike in Mohrytsia, near Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. Zaichenko said two people were killed, including one child. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Serhii Zaichenko, 63, school guard walks in the corridor of his school which was heavily damaged after Russian airstrike in Mohrytsia, near Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. Zaichenko said two people were killed, including one child. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

This image released by Maxar Technologies shows a trenchline southeast of Selektsionnyi, Russia, Monday Aug. 12, 2024. (Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies via AP)

This image released by Maxar Technologies shows a trench from Selektsionnyi to Lgov, Russia, Monday Aug. 12, 2024. (Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies via AP)

A Ukrainian serviceman holds a flag for his fallen comrade in front of a burned vehicle near Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s stunning incursion into Russia’s Kursk border region was a bold gamble for the country’s military commanders, who committed their limited resources to a risky assault on a nuclear-armed enemy with no assurance of success.

After the first signs of progress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy broke his silence and spelled out Kyiv’s daily advances to his war-weary public. By Wednesday, Ukrainian officials said they controlled 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of enemy territory, including at least 74 settlements and hundreds of Russian prisoners of war.

But a week after it began, the overall aim of the daring operation is still unclear: Will Ukraine dig in and keep the conquered territory, advance further into Russian territory or pull back?

What is clear is that the incursion has changed the battlefield. The shock of Ukraine’s thunder run revealed chinks in the armor of its powerful adversary. The attack also risked aggravating Ukraine’s own weaknesses by extending the front line and committing new troops at a time when military leaders are short on manpower.

To conduct the Kursk operation, Kyiv deployed battalions drawn from multiple brigades, some of which were pulled from the hottest parts of the front line, where Russia’s advance has continued unabated. So far, Moscow’s overall strategic advantage is intact.

“The stretching of the front line for us is also stretching the front line for the enemy,” said the commander of the 14th Regiment of Unmanned Aviation Systems, who participated in the opening stage of the offensive. “Only we have prepared for this operation in detail. The Russians were not prepared for this operation at all.”

He spoke on condition of anonymity, using only the call sign Charlie, in keeping with the rules of the Ukrainian military.

As the offensive enters its second week, Ukrainian forces are pushing out in several directions from the Russian town of Sudzha.

Images from the battlefield showing columns of destroyed Russian weaponry are reminiscent of Ukraine’s successful counteroffensives in 2022 in Kherson and Kharkiv. The photos are also a boon to national morale that deflated after the failed 2023 summer counteroffensive and months of recent territorial losses in the east.

But some analysts are reserving judgment on whether the Kursk region is the right theater to launch an offensive. Estimates of the number of troops operating there range from 5,000 to 12,000.

Within a week, Ukraine claimed to have captured almost as much Russian land in Kursk as Russian forces took in Ukraine in the last seven months, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank.

Russian authorities acknowledged the Ukrainian gains but described them as smaller. Even so, they have evacuated about 132,000 people.

Hundreds of Russian prisoners were blindfolded and ferried away in trucks in the opening moments of the lightning advance. They could be used in future prisoner swaps to free thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians in captivity.

On Wednesday, Ukrainian human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said the fighting in Kursk led his Russian counterpart, Tatyana Moskalkova, to initiate a conversation about prisoner swaps, the first time such a request has come from Moscow.

Politically, the incursion turned the tables on Russia and reset the terms of a conflict in which Ukraine increasingly seemed doomed to accept unfavorable cease-fire terms. The strike was also a powerful example of Ukrainian determination and a message to Western allies that have dithered on allowing donated weapons to be used for deeper strikes inside Russian territory.

The assault has shown that the fear of crossing Russian “red lines” that could lead to nuclear escalation “is a myth, and that Ukraine’s battle-hardened military remains a formidable force,” wrote Taras Kuzio, a professor of political science at the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak suggested that the incursion may also strengthen Kyiv’s hand in future negotiations with Russia. Occupying part of Russian territory ahead of any cease-fire talks may give Ukraine some leverage.

Though the fighting continues, the territory currently under Ukrainian control is, by itself, of little economic or strategic value.

“There is some important gas infrastructure in the area, but its usefulness is likely to be limited other than as a minor bargaining chip. Ukrainians have also cut a railway line running from Lgov to Belgorod,” said Pasi Paroinen of the Black Bird Group, a Finland-based open-source intelligence agency that monitors the war.

Major military bases are far from the current area of operations, and Ukrainian advances are expected to slow as Russia sends in more forces.

Ukrainian officials have said they do not intend to occupy Kursk, but they may seek to create a buffer zone to protect settlements in the bordering Sumy region from relentless Russian artillery attacks and to block supply lines to the northeast.

Forcing Russia to deploy reserves intended for other parts of the 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line was the minimum aim, said Charlie, the commander. But so far, Moscow’s focus in the Donetsk region has not changed.

Some Ukrainian troops were pulled from those very lines, where manpower shortages were a key factor that contributed to territorial losses this year.

In the strategically significant Pokrovsk area, which is the main thrust of Russia’s offensive effort, soldiers have seen few improvements since the Kursk incursion.

“Nothing has changed,” said a soldier known by the call sign Kyianyn, who also spoke on condition of anonymity due to military protocol. “If anything, I see the increase in Russian offensive actions.”

But the Kursk operation “showed they can’t defend their own territory,” he said. “All of us are inspired here. Many of our soldiers wanted to go to Kursk and push them straight to the Kremlin.”

Targeting Russia’s Northern Grouping of Forces, which feeds the Kharkiv front, is a key goal, said Konstantin Mashovets, a Ukrainian military expert. Some Russian units have reportedly moved from Vovchansk in Kharkiv.

In the south, a small number of Russian units were redeployed from the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, said Dmytro Lykhovii, the spokesman of the Tavria operational group. But that hasn’t affected Russian attacks.

“We even see an increase in (Russian) activity,” Lykhovii said.

The Kursk operation has also served to draw attention away from the eastern front, where tens of thousands of Ukrainians have been killed and wounded, and where the Ukrainian military has struggled to repair cracks in its defenses.

Most territorial losses in June and July were recorded in the Pokrovsk area, which is near a logistics hub, with fighting intensifying near the towns of Toretsk and Chasiv Yar.

Russian forces dialed up those attacks to capitalize on troop fatigue and shortages. On many occasions, the losses were the result of poorly timed troop rotations and blunders that cast doubt about the overall strategy of the Ukrainian military’s General Staff.

“There is no way Russia will stop its actions in the parts of the front line where they are tactically succeeding,” Mashovets said. “There, they will push and squeeze until their last man is standing, no matter what.” But the push into Kursk might force the Kremlin to pull reserves “from the parts of the front line that are of secondary importance.”

Associated Press journalist Volodymyr Yurchuk contributed to this report.

This story corrects name to 14th Regiment of Unmanned Aviation Systems instead of 14th Regiment of Unmanned Drones.

Maps and satellite imagery show Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region

By Annika Burgess

Topic: Unrest, Conflict and War

Ukraine's forces say they have taken several Russian towns and cities since the military incursion began on August 6. ( Reuters: Valentyn Ogirenko )

Ukrainian troops staged a surprise cross-border attack into Russia early last week, and now Kyiv claims to control more than 1,100 square kilometres of its neighbour's territory.

The incursion has reframed the war and caused chaos in western Russia's Kursk region.

It is the largest foreign attack on sovereign Russian territory since World War II.

More than 120,000 civilians have been evacuated, according to Russian authorities.

And Kyiv says it has captured at least 82 settlements.

This is how the incursion is tracking after nearly 10 days of fighting in the region.

Ukraine pushes into Kursk

On August 6, thousands of Ukrainian troops surged across the border from Ukraine's north-eastern Sumy region.

The attack took place in the town of Sudzha in Russia's Kursk region, located 530km from Moscow.

Early on, Russia's defence ministry said its forces had engaged Ukrainian troops near the villages of Tolpino and Obshchy Kolodez, about 25km and 30km from the Russia-Ukraine border.

In comparison, the Russian advance into Kharkiv this year penetrated about 8km into Ukraine.

Ukraine's military incursion into Russia, according to analysis by the the Institute for the Study of War.  ( ABC News )

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday, local time, his country's troops had taken full control of Sudzha.

Russia didn't immediately respond to his claims.

Although it had a pre-war population of only about 5,000 people, Sudzha is the Kursk region's administrative centre.

It is larger than any other towns or settlements Ukraine has taken since the incursion began.

Sudzha also has the only pumping station that delivers Russian natural gas to Europe through Ukraine.

It accounts for about 3 per cent of Europe's imports. There has been no indication of any disruption to the gas flow.

Regions declare state of emergency

After a week, Ukraine's top commander claimed to control 1,150 sq km of Russian territory.

Although analysts have suggested the true scale was smaller.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a US-based think tank that tracks developments on the frontline, has estimated about 800 sq km.

It said Ukraine had captured more land in a week than Russian forces had taken in Ukraine in seven months.

The regions of Kursk and neighbouring Belgorod have both declared a state of emergency.

The Kursk region has a population of about 1.2 million, and so far more than 120,000 civilians have been forced to flee, according to Russian authorities.

Specialists from the Russian emergencies ministry assist residents evacuated from the Kursk region.  ( Reuters: Russian Emergencies Ministry/Handout  )

Belgorod is a region of forests, farmland and rolling hills and has a 540km border along Ukraine's north-eastern edge.

It has a population of about 1.5 million.

It holds about 40 per cent of Russia's iron ore and other minerals, and is home to several major industrial companies and farms.

Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said the general staff had prepared a series of measures to defend Russia's border regions of Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod — which cover an area about 30 sq km larger than Tasmania. 

Ukrainian servicemen near the Russian border in Sumy region. ( Reuters: Viacheslav Ratynskyi )

Settlements captured 

Earlier this week, the acting governor of Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, said 28 communities had fallen to Ukrainian forces.

Ukraine's top commander Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi told Mr Zelenskyy on Thursday that the incursion had so far advanced 35km into the Kursk region, capturing 82 settlements. 

Russian military bloggers claimed that Ukrainian forces had advanced into the city of Krasnooktyabrskoye, which is 1km from the international border, according to ISW analysis on August 14.

Geolocated footage published on August 13 showed Ukrainian forces operating in eastern Zhuravli, indicating that Ukrainian forces advanced in the eastern part of the settlement.

Kyiv also claims to have captured hundreds of Russian prisoners of war.

Ukrainian special forces said a group of more than 100 Russian soldiers were taken in a single operation.

Images have shown blindfolded men, who appear to be Russian soldiers, being escorted through the Ukrainian Sumy region in the back of a military truck.

Ukraine's human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets said this week that he had talks with his Russian counterpart about a prisoner exchange. 

Ukraine releases images claiming to show Russian prisoners of war captured during an operation in the Kursk region. ( Ukrainian Security Service Press Office via AP )

Satellite images show airfield attacks

Ukraine has reportedly attacked several airfields in Russia. 

A satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Borisoglebsk Air Base in Russia after an attack by Ukrainian drones on August 14.

This satellite photo shows a damaged hangar at the Borisoglebsk Air Base in Russia after an attack by Ukrainian drones. ( AP: Planet Labs PBC  )

Separately, at Savasleika Air Base, one burn mark could be seen just off the runway in images on Wednesday.

Mr Zelenskyy thanked Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) and military for conducting drone strikes against unspecified Russian air bases.

This satellite shows damage at the Borisoglebsk Air Base in Russia after an attack by Ukrainian drones on August 14. ( AP: Planet Labs PBC  )

This satellite image shows damaged fighter jets at the Borisoglebsk Air Base in Russia. ( AP: Planet Labs PBC )

Satellite imagery collected by Maxar from the last two days shows a trench dug across the countryside near the city of Lgov in Russia's Kursk region.

Lgov is about 40km from what is thought to be the deepest penetration of Ukrainian troops.

The Russian trench appears to have been dug close to a main highway and rail line.

Satellite image shows a new series of defensive trenches near Lgov, extending east from the village of Selektsionnyi on August 12, 2024. ( Maxar Technologies via Reuters )

Satellite image shows a new series of defensive trenches that have been built near Lgov. ( Maxar Technologie via Reuters )

No ease on eastern frontline 

The Institute for the Study of War analysis of the situation in Ukraine as of August 14. ( ABC News )

Russia has seen previous raids of its territory in the war, but the Kursk incursion is notable for its size, speed, and the length of time that Ukraine has stayed inside Russia. 

Ukraine sent in some of its most battle-hardened Ukrainian brigades.

As many as 10,000 Ukrainian troops are involved, according to Western military analysts.

Mr Zelenskyy spoke cryptically of the need to move on to the "next steps" in public remarks this week, and hinted at other possible offensive actions in Russian territory.

Military analysts believe the main purpose of the incursion is to draw large numbers of Russian troops away from the frontline in the eastern Donetsk region.

Russian forces, which have a vast numerical supremacy and control 18 per cent of Ukrainian territory, have been advancing this year along the 1,000km front.

Ukraine said there was no sign that Russian military pressure was receding along the eastern front inside its borders and reported the heaviest fighting in weeks near the city of Pokrovsk, an important logistics hub.

The head of the Pokrovsk military administration appealed to locals to evacuate, saying Russian forces were getting closer.

If Russian troops capture Pokrovsk, where they've been trying to breach Ukrainian defences for weeks, they would further advance toward their goal of capturing Ukraine's entire Donetsk region.