Ukrainian troops have taken control of the small Russian town of Sudzha and will establish a military command office there, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday. The office will oversee the maintenance of law and order and cater to the basic needs of the local Russian population, Zelensky said following a meeting with Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. Sudzha only had a pre-war population of around 5,000 people. But it is the administrative centre of a border district in Russia’s Kursk region, making its fall to Ukraine an embarrassing defeat for Russian President Vladimi…