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Zelenskiy: Ukrainian Forces Holding Positions in Russia's Kursk Region

This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on October 4, 2024, shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) awarding a Ukrainian serviceman of the 82nd Air Assault Brigade at an undisclosed location in the Sumy region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP) /
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on October 4, 2024, shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) awarding a Ukrainian serviceman of the 82nd Air Assault Brigade at an undisclosed location in the Sumy region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP) /
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Zelenskiy: Ukrainian Forces Holding Positions in Russia's Kursk Region

This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on October 4, 2024, shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) awarding a Ukrainian serviceman of the 82nd Air Assault Brigade at an undisclosed location in the Sumy region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP) /
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on October 4, 2024, shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) awarding a Ukrainian serviceman of the 82nd Air Assault Brigade at an undisclosed location in the Sumy region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP) /

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Russian forces had tried to oust Ukrainian troops from positions in Russia's Kursk border region, but Kyiv's forces were holding their lines.

"Regarding the Kursk operation, Russia tried to push back our positions, but we are holding the designated lines," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.

Russia's defense ministry said on Friday that its forces had recaptured two villages in the border Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops launched a mass incursion in August.

One person was killed when a Ukrainian drone struck the Russian village of Ustinka in the Belgorod region close to the border with Ukraine, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a statement on Saturday.

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Israel Allows Schools to Resume in the North Despite Rocket Fire

People ride bicycles on the street on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement and the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and the hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Tel Aviv, Israel October 12, 2024. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
People ride bicycles on the street on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement and the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and the hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Tel Aviv, Israel October 12, 2024. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
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Israel Allows Schools to Resume in the North Despite Rocket Fire

People ride bicycles on the street on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement and the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and the hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Tel Aviv, Israel October 12, 2024. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
People ride bicycles on the street on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement and the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and the hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Tel Aviv, Israel October 12, 2024. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

The Israeli army said Saturday it has loosened restrictions on activities allowed in the north of the country, announcing — among other things — that schools can resume teaching.

The announcement comes despite a barrage of rockets fired by Hezbollah into Israel Friday night and Saturday, celebrated in Israel as Yom Kippur, or the Jewish Day of Atonement. The military said some of the approximately 320 projectiles were intercepted, and no injuries have been reported.

The military also said it has struck 280 military targets in Lebanon and Gaza over the weekend, and that it killed 50 Hezbollah militants. It has provided no evidence for the latter claim.

Separately, Hezbollah said it launched an attack with explosive drones on the suburbs of Tel Aviv. One drone directly hit a nursing home in Herzliya, a city north of Tel Aviv, Israeli media said. No casualties have been reported.