Over 160 residents of the Kursk region have returned from Ukraine, according to corroborated reports. The returns involved the International Committee of the Red Cross and mediation by Belarus. On March 28, 2026, 25 residents of the Kursk region returned from Ukraine, according to Interfax-Russia.ru. Among them were many elderly people over the age of 85, including a 92-year-old woman. On an unspecified date prior to June 1, 2026, 33 residents of the Kursk region returned from Ukraine, according to DeepNewz.com, and included mostly elderly people and four children. Sixteen of the returned residents are children, according to The Moscow Times. Kursk residents received humanitarian aid upon return, according to DevDiscourse.com.

Tatyana Moskalkova, the predecessor of Yana Lantratova, claimed all Kursk residents held in Ukraine had been returned, according to The Moscow Times. Yana Lantratova is verifying the number of Kursk residents still held in Ukraine. The relationship between the 160+ figure and earlier returns of 25 and 33 residents is not clarified by any source. A report from November 2024 stated that 46 residents of the Kursk region returned from Ukraine, but no source integrates this figure into the timeline of later returns. Yana Lantratova plans to meet her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Lubinets in the near future.