Published on November 15, 2024 at 5:19 p.m. / Modified on November 15, 2024 at 6:15 p.m.
What is happening in the Kursk region of Russia? Three months after the incursion of the Ukrainian armed forces, the latter are still present there despite the Kremlin’s promises to drive out of its borders those whom Vladimir Putin had described as “bandits”.
Officially, the Russian army has been carrying out a major offensive on the ground for several days, suggesting that events are likely to accelerate as January 20, 2025 approaches, the date on which the new American president will take office. By then, the Russians hope to finally free this border region from the Ukrainian presence, a real thorn in the side of Moscow’s propagandists. While kyiv is doing everything to stay there in order to use these conquests – however meager they may be – as a bargaining chip during the ceasefire negotiations that everyone considers imminent after the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House.
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