Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the Ukraine army’s incursion into the Kursk region, which has caused more than 100,000 civilians to flee, is an attempt by Kyiv to stop Moscow’s offensive in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region.
Things seemed to be going so well for Vladimir Putin — at home and on the battlefield. Now Russia is the battlefield, after Ukraine’s stunning assault across the border turned the tables on Putin’s war and left his army scrambling to retake its own land. It’s a remarkable turn of events after a year of things largely going Putin’s way, from the short-lived mutiny he put down to his resilient economy and months of grinding gains on the front lines.
And just weeks ago, Putin was triumphantly greeting the spies and an assassin he brought home in the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War. But now, with battles raging inside Russia for an eighth day, Putin must account for how his intelligence chiefs and border guards failed to stop thousands of troops storming across the border.
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