Russian President Vladimir Putin telephoned his top commanders in Kursk to congratulate them on ‘victory’ and the end of the operation to expel Ukrainian forces from the region in western Russia, Russian news agencies quoted the Kremlin as saying yesterday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, writing about front-line operations yesterday, said Ukrainian forces remained active in Kursk and in Russia’s neighbouring Belgorod region.
Russian forces for months have been pressing for the ejection of Ukrainian forces who staged a surprise cross-border incursion last August and seized swathes of territory.
“Putin congratulated them on the victory and thanked them for their heroic work,” the Russian agencies quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying.
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