He said Russia had suffered more than 50,000 losses during the operation - including those killed, injured or captured.

I love how they are clearly just making up numbers.

Last week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said he believed the Kursk operation had "accomplished its task" by forcing Russia to pull troops from the east and relieve pressure on Pokrovsk.

But it is not yet clear at what cost.

It's over. Ukraine has been "at what cost"ed by the BBC.