KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – All Ukrainian troops have been forced from Russia’s Kursk region, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff for Russia’s Armed Forces, gave Russian President Vladimir Putin the news in a meeting Saturday, Peskov told Russian state news outlet Interfax.
Ukrainian officials have not commented on the claim.
In a statement, Putin congratulated the Russian soldiers and commanders and said that Kyiv’s incursion had “completely failed”.
“The complete defeat of our enemy along Kursk´s border region creates the right conditions for further successes for our troops and in other important areas of the front,” he said.
The Ukrainian army stunned Russia in August 2024 by attacking across the border and taking control of
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