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EpaDuring a meeting on a video conference with Putin on Saturday, Gerasimov said: “Today the last settlement in the Kursk region, the village of Gornol, was liberated from the Ukrainian forces.”
He praised what he called the “heroism” of North Korean troops, which “provided significant assistance in winning the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”
“The adventure of the Kiev regime has completely failed,” Putin said Gerasimov, saying that this would open the way for further Russian achievements on other fronts.
Responding to the post on the telegram, the general headquarters of the Ukrainian military said The situation on the battlefield was “difficult” But he insisted that his forces still hold positions in Kursk and continuing the invasion in the Russian region of Belgorad.
The invasion of Ukraine was launched in August last year as an attempt to create a buffer zone on the border between the two countries that would prevent the deployment of Russian forces on the eastern line of Ukraine.
This comes a day after US President Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine were “very close to the deal” after the war, after the negotiations between his envoy Steve Vitco and Putin this week.
Trump met with President of Ukrainian Volodzimir Zelensky before Pope Francis’ funeral in the Vatican on Saturday. On Friday, Zelensky told the BBC that he was pushing for a “complete and unconditional ceasefire” before a deal was reached.
Kyiv faced Trump’s increasing pressure to accept territorial concessions as part of any transaction with Moscow until the end of the fighting, which reportedly could include the rejection of the Crimean Peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.
Ukraine hoped that it could use the land it confiscated in the Kursk region as a spoken chip in future peace talks with Russia, which started a complete invasion of 2022 and has Currently, about 20% of the worldly recognized territory of Ukraine controls.
Russia says its troops are now on the border with the Ukrainian region located near Kursk.
