Fighting in Russia rages for a third day after 1,000 Ukrainian troops stormed across the international border into the Kursk region Tuesday in one of the largest surprise attacks on Russia since the war began over two years ago.
Ukraine’s dramatic cross-border thrust into Russia’s Kursk region has upturned most military analysts’ expectations of how the conflict is going.
On state television Putin described the Ukrainian incursion into Russian territory, some 320 miles from Moscow, as a 'large scale provocation'.
The Vladimir Putin administration has spent nearly three days deliberating on how the Russian media should cover the military operation in Kursk Oblast.