Putin’s go to is the primary to the area since Russia claimed its forces had ejected Ukrainian troops in late April.
President Vladimir Putin has visited the border area of Kursk for the primary time since Russian forces ejected Ukrainian troops from the realm final month, the Kremlin mentioned.
Ukrainian forces made an incursion into the Kursk area in August 2024 in one among their boldest battlefield successes within the greater than three-year warfare. It the primary time Russian territory was occupied by an invader since World Struggle II.
For the reason that finish of 2023, Russia has largely had the benefit on the battlefield, except Kursk.
On the top of the incursion, Ukrainian forces claimed almost 1,400 sq. kilometres (540 sq. miles) of Kursk.
Russia mentioned in late April that it had ejected Ukrainian troops from the area.
Throughout Tuesday’s “working go to”, Putin met volunteer organisations in Kursk and inspected a nuclear energy plant within the area, the Kremlin mentioned on Wednesday.
Russian state tv confirmed Putin assembly volunteers and native officers within the area, together with performing governor Alexander Khinshtein.
Putin was accompanied by Sergei Kiriyenko, the Kremlin first deputy chief of workers.
In Ukraine, a minimum of six servicemen had been killed and 10 others wounded in a missile assault on Tuesday, Ukraine’s nationwide guard mentioned on Wednesday.
“An inside investigation into the incident is underway. The commander of the navy unit has been suspended, and the required data has been handed on to legislation enforcement businesses,” Ukraine’s nationwide guard mentioned in a press release.
Ukraine’s Sumy border area has come underneath intensifying assaults in current months. Russia’s defence ministry had on Tuesday night mentioned it had launched a ballistic missile assault on the Ukrainian web site.
“Throughout reconnaissance actions … a coaching camp” for Ukrainian particular forces was “detected,” it mentioned in a social media publish.
“Based mostly on the acquired coordinates, an Iskander missile strike was launched.”
Russia additionally printed footage exhibiting the hit on what it mentioned was a coaching camp in a wooded space.
Aerial footage confirmed one strike, sparking a big hearth and sending a plume of thick black smoke billowing into the air.
In the meantime, Russia mentioned it intercepted 159 drones launched by Ukraine over 12 hours focusing on a number of Russian areas, together with Moscow, the navy mentioned in a press release on Wednesday.
The drones largely focused Russian areas bordering Ukraine and had been launched on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, mentioned a defence ministry assertion.
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian navy mentioned it had struck a semiconductor machine plant in a drone assault on Russia’s Oryol area.
The plant provides numerous enterprises together with some concerned within the manufacturing of Iskander and Kinzhal missiles, the navy mentioned on Telegram, including that 10 drones had reached the goal space and {that a} hearth had damaged out.
The barrage got here two days after a phone call between Putin and US President Donald Trump did not clinch a breakthrough in direction of a ceasefire within the three-year battle.
European diplomats have been urgent Moscow to comply with a truce.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused the Kremlin of stalling with a view to proceed its offensive.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned on Tuesday he anticipated Russia to current a Ukraine ceasefire define inside days that can present if it was critical.