Russia’s Putin visits Kursk as Ukraine says six killed in missile strike | Russia-Ukraine war News

Putin’s visit is the first to the region since Russia claimed its forces had ejected Ukrainian troops in late April.

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…