Putin rages at Ukraine attack in Kursk Region, calling a 'major provocation'
In this pool photograph distributed by Russia n state-owned Sputnik agency, Russia 's President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with heads of law enforcement agencies on the situation in the Kursk region, director of the Federal Security Service of the Russia n Federation, Alexander Bortnikov and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russia n Federation, Sergei Shoigu in Moscow. Up to 1 000 Ukrainian soldiers are involved in the incursion.
Witnesses interviewed on Russian television said they had fled border areas in cars under drone fire. An image taken from a handout footage released by the Russian Defence Ministry shows how Russian forces are still facing a major incursion by Ukrainian troops on their soil, in the Kursk border region, an unexpected setback for the Kremlin whose army was to its advantage until then on the front. President Volodymyr Zelensky made no reference to the events in Kursk in his nightly video address, while the General Staff did not mention it in its daily battlefield update.
In Washington, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said the United States was seeking an understanding from Ukraine on the incursion, and said it had had no advance knowledge of it.
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