Putin says Ukrainian attack on Kursk is a major provocation

Russian President Putin chairs a meeting in Moscow
FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting held to discuss issues on socio-economic development of the regions of Ukraine that Russia claimed to have annexed in 2022, in Moscow, Russia July 24, 2024. Sputnik/Grigory Sysoyev/Pool via REUTERS/FIle Photo
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Putin says Ukrainian attack on Kursk is a major provocation

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that a Ukrainian incursion into Russia's Kursk region was a major provocation.

"The Kyiv regime has launched another major provocation," Putin told members of the Russian government about the Kursk attack.

Putin said Ukrainian forces were conducting the "indiscriminate shelling of civilian" targets in the Kursk region.

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