Russia President Vladimir Putin has visited the border region of Kursk for the first time, since Russian forces ejected Ukrainian troops from the area last month, the Kremlin said. Ukrainian forces made an incursion into the Kursk region in August 2024 in one of their boldest battlefield successes in the more than three-year war. It the first time Russian territory was occupied by an invader since World War II. Since the end of 2023, Russia has mostly had the advantage on the battlefield, with the exception of Kursk. At the…
