MOSCOW: Ukraine’s “provocation” in Russia’s Kursk region has failed to stop the Russian military from advancing in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the RIA news agency cited Russian President Vladimir Putin as saying on Monday.

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Putin, on a trip to Russia’s Tuva region, said Russian forces were reclaiming territory in the Kursk region “by square kilometres” and the Ukrainian incursion force there would “be dealt with”.