Ukraine has continued to press on with a major incursion into Russia's Kursk region.

The Ukrainian military claims to have destroyed pontoon bridges and engineering equipment in the region with US-made rockets.

These moves are part of an attempt to establish what President Volodymyr Zelensky described as a military "buffer zone" inside Russian territory.

Meanwhile, Moscow said its forces had halted Kyiv's advance in the region and gained ground in eastern Ukraine.

How does Ukraine's incursion into Russia alter the dynamics of the war?

Host Zhao Ying is joined by Zhang Xin, Deputy Director of the Center for Russian Studies at East China Normal University; Hannan Hussain, Co-founder of Initiate Futures, an Islamabad-based policy think tank; Joseph Siracusa, Dean of Global Futures with Curtin University.

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Panel: What does the Kursk incursion mean for the broader Russia-Ukraine war?