All Ukrainian troops have been forced to get out of Kursk region of RussiaRussian military statements.
Valería Gerasimov, head of the general personnel of the Armed Forces of Russia, cools the news to President Vladimir Putin at a meeting on Saturday.
“Today, the last settlement in the Kursk region, Gornal’s village, has been released from Ukrainian forces,” Gerasimov said a videoconference meeting with Putin, according to the AFP.
Ukrainian officials did not confirm the claim. In Saturday’s morning update, Ukraine general personnel said the forces continue to retain Russian troops in the Kursk sector, going back against the Russian statements that Ukraine has been completely evicted from the territory.
Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo through AP
In a statement, Putin congratulated Russian soldiers and commanders and said that kyiv’s incursion “had completely failed.”
“The complete defeat of our enemy along the border region of Kursk creates the right conditions for more successes for our troops and in other important areas of the front,” he said.
Ukraine launched a Bold offensive in Kursk’s border region In August last year, caught even its unsuspecting western allies and hit Moscow on the boat. He took control of approximately 500 square miles. Ukraine had hoped that controlling the Russian territory would give him a leverage of large future fire conversations. However, their profits were slowly eroded and Ukrainian troops continued to lose control of the territory through the early 2025.
Now, Russian troops are on the border and are balanced to reinforce threats to the Ukrainian region of Sumy, which faces Kursk, AFP reported.
Gerasimov also confirmed on Saturday that North Korean soldiers fought against Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region of Russia. Gerasimov said they separate in “shoulder shoulder combat missions with the Russian military duration of the Ukrainian incursion” and “demonstrated high professionalism, showed Foritue, courage and heroism in battle.”
In autumn, Ukraine, the United States and South Korea said that North Korea, who had previously supplied weapons to Moscow, there were deployed 10,000-12000 or its troops To Russia to fight in Kursk.
Moscow and Pyongyang had so far responded vaguely to the claims of South and west of the deployment of troops, emphasizing that their military cooperation forms international law, without directly admitting the presence of the presence of the presence of the presence of the north.
Kursk’s news occurred when the president of the United States, Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy With the city of the Vatican apart from Pope Francis’s funeral.
Brochure of the Ukraine Presidential Office
The two presidents with the Basilica of San Pedro for about 15 minutes and agreed continuous negotiations later on Saturday, said Ukrainian presidential spokesman Serhii NykyForov.
The Communications Director of the White House, Steven Cheung, also confirmed the meeting and said that “privately today and had a very productive discussion.”
Shortly after the end of the Pope’s funeral, Trump left Italy in the United States
Steve Witkoff from the Middle East. Uu. With Putin on Friday, and Trump said both parties were “very close to an agreement.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said In an interview with “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” That Kremlin is “ready to reach an agreement” with the United States in Ukraine, he thought he also said that some elements must be “adjusted.”
“The president of the United States believes, and I think that we are rightly moving in the right direction,” said Lavrov.
Meanwhile, in a statement on Friday night, Zenskyy said that “very significant meetings can take place” in the next few days, and that the unconditional fire was needed.
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