Vladimir Putin visits western region of Kursk, as US negotiators head to Russia
from the western Russia n region of Kursk has entered its final stage, state news agency Tass reported on Thursday citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.On his Kursk visit, Mr Putin, dressed in military fatigues, ordered top commanders to defeat Ukrainian forces in the region as soon as possible after the United States asked him to consider a 30-day ceasefire proposal.
Mr Trump would not say when he would next speak to Mr Putin, but added that “I hope he’s going to have a ceasefire.Ukrainian forces smashed across the Russian border on August 6th and grabbed a slice of land inside Russia in a bid to distract Moscow’s forces from the front lines in eastern Ukraine and to gain a potential bargaining chip.
Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s general staff, told Mr Putin that Russian forces had pushed Ukrainian forces out of over 86 per cent of the territory they had once held in Kursk.
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